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Art and the Absolute : A Study of Hegel's title: Aesthetics SUNY Series in Hegelian Studies author: Desmond, William. publisher: State University of New York Press isbn10 | asin: 0887061508 print isbn13: 9780887061509 ebook isbn13: 9780585063355 language: English Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,--1770- 1831--Aesthetics, Aesthetics, Modern--19th subject century, Art--Philosophy--History--19th century. publication date: 1986 lcc: B2949.A4D47 1986eb ddc: 111/.85/0924 Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,--1770- 1831--Aesthetics, Aesthetics, Modern--19th subject: century, Art--Philosophy--History--19th century. Page i Art and the Absolute Page ii SUNY Series in Hegelian Studies Quentin Lauer. S.J., Editor Page iii Art and the Absolute A Study Of Hegel's Aesthetics William Desmond State University of New York Press Page iv TO MARIA AND WILLIAM ÓG Published by State University of New York Press, Albany © 1986 State University of New York All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information, address State University of New York Press, State University Plaza, Albany, N.Y., 12246 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Desmond, William, 1951 Art and the absolute. (SUNY series in Hegelian studies) Bibliography 1. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 17701831 Contributions in aesthetics. 2. Aesthetics, Modern 19th century. 3. ArtPhilosophyHistory19th century. I. Title. II. Series. B2949.D47 1986 111'.85'0924 859886 ISBN 0-88706-150-8 ISBN 0-88706-151-6 (pbk.) 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Page v Contents Preface vii Introduction xi Chapter One. Art, Imitation and Creation 1 Imitation: Art and the Metaphysics of Image and 1 Original, Creation: Art and Sensuous Self-Knowledge, 5 Art and Philosophy: Openness and Subordination, 10 Chapter Two. Art, Philosophy and Concreteness 15 The Tension of Image and Concept, 15 The Question of Concreteness, 18 Concreteness and the Art Work, 21 Concreteness and the Philosophical Concept, 23 Art and Philosophy as Complementary Modes of 29 Concrete Articulation, Chapter Three. Art, Religion and Absoluteness 35 Art, Religion and Absolute Spirit, 35 Art as "Aesthetic," 37 Art as "Religious": Symbolical, Classical and Romantic 40 Art, Art as "Religious": Creativity and Geist, 44 The Aesthetic and the Religious: On Right-and Left- 49 Hegelian Readings, Page vi Chapter Four: Art, History and the Question of an End 57 Art and the Question of History, 57 Art and Time: Dialectic in Imaginative Form, 60 Art, History and the Embodiment of an "Open" End, 67 Art's Wholeness and the Problem of Closure, 71 Chapter Five. Dialectic, Deconstruction and Art's 77 Wholeness Deconstruction and the Absence of the Absolute, 77 Literary Theory and the Question of Wholeness, 81 Art and Post-Hegelianism: The Nietzschean- 83 Heideggerian Heritage, Identity, Difference and Deconstruction, 88 Identity, Difference and Dialectic, 91 Dialectic, Art and Wholeness, 96 Chapter Six. Beauty and the Aesthetic Dilemma of 103 Modernity Beauty and the Absolute, 103 The Ambiguity of Beauty for Hegel and His Era: 106 Enthusiasm and Scepticism, Beauty in Eclipse: Subjectivity in Excess, 114 Ancient Beauty and the Modern Expressive Subject: 120 Hegel in Relation to Platonic and Kantian Aesthetics, Beauty and the Overcoming of Metaphysical Dualisms: 130
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