Hegel: Lectures on the Philosophy of Art - The Hotho Transcript of the 1823 Berlin Lectures

Hegel gave various lecture series on aesthetics or the philosophy of art, but never published a book of his own on this topic. His famous works on aesthetics were compiled from transcripts of lectures. This volume now presents one transcript complete in English for the first time, with extensive introductory material.

List of contents

• Preface


• Editorial Introduction


• 1: Background Issues


• 2: The Hotho Transcript in the German Edition


• 3: This English Edition


• Introduction: The Shape and Influence of Hegel's Aesthetics


• 1: The Contemporary Importance of Hegel's Aesthetics


• 2: The Sources for Hegel's Aesthetics


• 3: Hegel's Philosophy of Art as Reflected in Its Original Reception


• 4: 'Transcripts Are of Course Opaque Sources'


• The Hotho Transcript of the 1823 Berlin Lectures


• Introduction


• 1: Two Challenges to the Worthiness of Art for Philosophical Examination


• 2: The Specific Topic: The Philosophy of Art


• 3: Overview of the Topic and Its Treatment


• The General Part


• Introduction


• 1: The Beautiful as Such


• 2: Artistic Beauty as the Ideal


• 3: The Existence or Actualization of the Ideal


• 4: The General Art Forms

About the author

Robert F. Brown is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Delaware.

Summary

Hegel gave various lecture series on aesthetics or the philosophy of art, but never published a book of his own on this topic. His famous works on aesthetics were compiled from transcripts of lectures. This volume now presents one transcript complete in English for the first time, with extensive introductory material.

Additional text

Oxford's decision to publish translations of editions of the transcripts is one for which English-language scholarship on Hegel can be grateful, and Robert F. Brown's long-term familiarity with translating Hegel's texts is helpful here.

Product details

• Authors: Robert F. Brown, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
• Assisted by: Robert F. Brown (Editor), Robert F. Brown (Translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.08.2014
• EAN: 9780199694822
• ISBN: 978-0-19-969482-2
• No. of pages: 524
• Series: Hegel Lectures; Hegel Lectures
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History of Ideas, Theory of art, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, HISTORY / Social History, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, ART / Criticism & Theory, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, History of Western philosophy