Art as the Absolute

Art's Relation to Metaphysics in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer

Professor Paul Gordon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2017
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-3055-1 (ISBN)

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Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who followed after, including Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem of how one can “know” the absolute in non-conceptual, non-discursive terms.

The idea of art’s inherent relation to the absolute, first explicitly rendered by Kant, is examined in major works from 1790 to 1823. The first and last chapters, on Plato and Nietzsche respectively, deal with precursors and “post-cursors” of this idea. Gordon shows and seeks to reddress the lack of attention to this idea after Hegel, as well as in contemporary reassessments of this period. Art as the Absolute will be of interest to students and scholars studying aesthetics from both a literary and philosophical perspective.

Paul Gordon is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He is the author of The Critical Double: Figurative Meaning in Aesthetic Discourse (1995), Tragedy After Nietzsche: Rapturous Superabundance (2001), and Dial ‘M’ for Mother: A Freudian Hitchcock (2008).

Preface Art as the Absolute: Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel and Schopenhauer
Introduction The Symposium on Art and the Absolute
1 Kant I: The Critique of Judgment
2 Kant II: The Critique of Teleological Judgment
3 Fichte: On the Spirit and the Letter in Philosophy
4 Schelling I: The System of Transcendental Idealism
5 Schelling II: The Philosophy of Art
6 Hegel: The Encycopedia and Lectures on Aesthetics
7 Schopenhauer: The World as Will and Representation
Appendix Nietzsche’s Wrath: Nietzsche’s Critique of the Kantian Absolute

Bibliography
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Erscheinungsdatum	29.03.2017
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	290 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-5013-3055-1 / 1501330551
ISBN-13	978-1-5013-3055-1 / 9781501330551
Zustand	Neuware