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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783117103321

Titolo

Classic and romantic German aesthetics / / editor, J.M. Bernstein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2003

ISBN

1-107-13124-3

1-280-43354-X

0-511-80373-7

1-139-14734-X

0-511-17846-8

0-511-06376-8

0-511-05743-1

0-511-33056-1

0-511-07222-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xli, 311 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Cambridge texts in the history of philosophy

Disciplina

111/.85/0943

Soggetti

Aesthetics, German

Arts, Classical - Aesthetics

Arts, Classical - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Aesthetica in nuce : a rhapsody in Cabbalistic prose (1762) / J.G. Hamann -- Laocoön : an essay on the limits of painting and poetry (1766) / Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- From 'On the artistic imitation of the beautiful' (1788) / Karl Phillip Moritz -- 'Kallias or Concerning beauty : letters to Gottfried Körner' (1793) / Friedrich Schiller -- 'Oldest programme for a system of German idealism' (1796) ; 'Letter to Hegel, 26 January 1795' ; 'Being judgement possibility' (1795) ; 'The significance of tragedy' (1802) ; 'Remarks on Oedipus' (1803) ; Friedrich Hölderlin -- From Miscellaneous remarks (1797) ; 'Monologue' ; 'Dialogues' (1798) ; 'On Goethe' (1798) ; 'Studies in the visual arts' (1799) ; Novalis -- From 'Critical fragments' (1797) ; From 'Athenaeum fragments' (1798) ; From 'Ideas' (1800) ; 'On Goethe's Meister' (1798) ; 'Letter about the novel' (1799) ; 'On incomprehensibility' (1800) ;



Friedrich Schlegel.

Sommario/riassunto

This 2002 volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously influential in this crucial period of aesthetics. These texts include the first translation into English of Schiller's Kallias Letters and Moritz's On the Artistic Imitation of the Beautiful, together with translations of some of Hölderlin's most important theoretical writings and works by Hamann, Lessing, Novalis and Schlegel. In a philosophical introduction J. M. Bernstein traces the development of aesthetics from its still rationalist and mimetic construction in Lessing, through the optimistic construal of art and/or beauty as the appearance of human freedom in the work of Schiller, to Hölderlin's darker vision of art as the memory of a lost unity, and the variations of that theme - of an impossible striving after the lost ideal - which are found in the work of Schlegel and Novalis.