Hegel and the Present of Arts Past Character

This book reclaims Hegel's notion of the "end of art"-or, more precisely, of "art's past character"-not just as a piece of the history of philosophy but as a living critical and interpretive methodology. It addresses the presence of the past character of art both in Hegel and contemporary philosophy and aesthetics.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Historical and Philosophical Background: Kant and Schiller, the Revolution, and the Malaise of Modernity 2. From the Symbolic to the Humoristic and Back: The New Sacred of Art 3. (The Absence of) Art's Right 4. Futures of Art: Hegel, Danto, Pippin 5. Antigone, the Disappearance of the Tragic, and Human Rights 6. Croce and Gramsci (and Gentile) on Hegel's Dialectics and the Death of Art 7. Subjects and Destinies of Poetry: Heidegger and Celan 8. No Code Aesthetics

About the author

Alberto L. Siani is Associate Professor of Aesthetics at the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa. He has published mostly on the aesthetics of German Idealism and is the co-editor, with Sandrine Bergès, of Women Philosophers on Autonomy: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (Routledge, 2018).

Summary

This book reclaims Hegel’s notion of the “end of art”—or, more precisely, of “art’s past character”—not just as a piece of the history of philosophy but as a living critical and interpretive methodology. It addresses the presence of the past character of art both in Hegel and contemporary philosophy and aesthetics.

Product details

• Authors: Alberto L. Siani, Alberto L. (University of Pisa Siani
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032482965
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3248296-5
• No. of pages: 158
• Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / General, Theory of art, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophy of religion, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought