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Author James, David, 1966-

Title Art, myth, and society in Hegel's aesthetics [electronic resource] / David James.

Imprint London ; New York : Continuum, 2009.

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Description xii, 148 p.
Series Continuum studies in philosophy
Continuum studies in philosophy.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction -- The symbolic form of art -- Kant's theory of the mathematical sublime and the boundlessness of the symbolic form of art -- The classical sublimity of Judaism -- The classical form of art -- The original epic -- The ideal -- The transition to the revealed religion and the romantic form of art -- The revealed religion -- Representational thought and the romantic form of art -- Traces of left-hegelianism in Hegel's lectures on aesthetics -- The end of mythology -- The significance of Kierkegaard's interpretation of Don Giovanni in relation to Hegel's theory of the end of art -- The end of art -- The opera as a modern art form -- Hegel and Lukacs's on the possibility of a modern epic -- The problem of a modern epic -- The modern epic and history -- Civil society as the background to the modern epic -- Myth and society : a common theme in the thought of Hegel and Sorel -- Sorel's myth of the general strike -- Myth and modern ethical life.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Aesthetics.
Religion -- Philosophy.
History -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780826425607 (HB)
0826425607 (HB)
9781441175977

 
    
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