After the Beautiful - Hegel and the Philosophy of Pictorial Modernism

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility - the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. This title offers a sophisticated exploration of Hegel's position.

About the author

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of several books, including "Nietzsche, Psychology, and First Philosophy," also published by the University of Chicago Press, and, most recently, "Fatalism in American Film Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy."

Summary

In his Berlin lectures on fine art, Hegel argued that art involves a unique form of aesthetic intelligibility - the expression of a distinct collective self-understanding that develops through historical time. This title offers a sophisticated exploration of Hegel's position.

Product details

• Authors: Robert B. Pippin, Robert Pippin
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.12.2013
• EAN: 9780226079493
• ISBN: 978-0-226-07949-3
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 240 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought