Hegel on the Modern Arts

Informationen zum Autor Benjamin Rutter teaches English at Saint Ann's School, Brooklyn, New York. His research interests include German Idealism, contemporary analytic aesthetics, and the philosophy of criticism. This is his first book. Klappentext Rutter revisits and resolves the 'end of art' debates while breaking new ground on Hegel's response to painting and literature. Zusammenfassung Hegel's farseeing suggestion that art reaches its 'end' in modernity resonates powerfully today. Drawing on unpublished lectures! Rutter recasts received views of Hegel's position! demonstrating the subtlety and relevance of his responses to Dutch painting and Romantic poetry and arguing! finally! for Hegel's importance as a philosopher of modern life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The problem of a modern art; 2. Painting life; 3. The values of virtuosity; 4. The lyric; 5. Modern literature; Bibliography.

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Rutter, Rutter Benjamin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.07.2010
• EAN: 9780521114011
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11401-1
• No. of pages: 298
• Series: Modern European Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Theory of art, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, History of art / art & design styles, Classical history / classical civilisation, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought