LEADER 04736nam 22005173 450 001 9911009246803321 005 20240527084506.0 010 $a0-520-37708-7 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520377080 035 $a(CKB)32142946400041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31327031 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31327031 035 $a(OCoLC)1435755639 035 $a(DE-B1597)694917 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520377080 035 $a(EXLCZ)9932142946400041 100 $a20240527d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Aesthetic State $eA Quest in Modern German Thought 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2018. 210 4$d©2024. 215 $a1 online resource (593 pages) 311 08$a0-520-41382-2 311 08$a0-520-30137-4 327 $aCover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Overture -- I. Classicism -- 1. Winckelmann: The Myth of Aesthetic Hellas -- 2. Wieland, Herder, Goethe: Weimar Aesthetic Humanism -- 3. Schiller: The Theory of the Aesthetic State -- II. Idealism -- 4. The Early Hölderlin, Hegel, and Schelling: Dialectics, Revolution, and the "Theocracy of the Beautiful -- 5. Hölderlin: Dialectic of Tragedy -- 6. Hegel: The Aufhebung of the Aesthetic State -- III. Realism -- 7. Marx: Communism and the Laws of Beauty -- 8. Wagner: The Communal Artwork -- 9. Nietzsche: Aesthetic Morals -- IV. Postrealism -- 10. Heidegger: Ontological Anarchy -- 11. Marcuse: Aesthetic Ethos -- 12. Spies: Theatre State -- Coda: Eutopia -- Index. 330 $aShortly after the middle of the eighteenth century a number of thinkers from the German-speaking lands began to create a paradigm drawn from their impressions of a distant historical reality, ancient Athens; added to it a new mode of thought, modern dialectics; and at times even paid homage to the ancient Greek deity Dionysos, to materialize their longing for an ideal. The influence of these forces came to permeate modern German consciousness, deifying the concept and activity of art, reviving the Platonic (and Sanskrit) vision of the cosmos as play and aesthetic creation, and projecting a way of life and labor that would honor not the commodity but the aesthetic product.   With rigorous commitment to primary sources and an unflagging critical engagement with the ideas and concrete situations they raise, Josef Chytry provides a comprehensive and extensive study of this central motif in German thought from Winckelmann to Marcuse.   Chytry takes "aesthetic state" to signify the concentrated modern intellectual movement to revitalize the radical Hellenic tradition of the polis as the site of a beautiful or good life. The movement begins with the classicism of Winckelmann, Wiemar aesthetic humanism (Wieland, Herder, Goethe), and Schiller's formal theory of the aesthetic state and continues through the idealism of the Swabian dialecticians Holderlin, Hegel, and Schelling and the realism of Marx, Wagner, and Nietzsche. It culminates in the postrealism of Heiddegger, Marcuse, and the aesthetic modernist artist Walter Spies, who initiated a dialogue with the non-Western "theatre state" of the isle of Bali.   Josef Chytry concludes that the future speculation on the ideal of an aesthetic state must come to terms with the postrealist themes of ontological anarchy, aesthetic ethos, and theatre state. In a bold effort to stimulate such speculation, 330 8 $aChytry indicates how proponents of the aesthetic state might join forces with Rawlsian political theory to promote further the organon of persuasion that, in his view, serves as the common fount for the ancient, dialectical, and contractarian quests for the polis.   This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1989. 606 $aAesthetics, German$y18th century 606 $aHISTORY / Europe / Germany$2bisacsh 615 0$aAesthetics, German 615 7$aHISTORY / Europe / Germany. 676 $a111/.85/0943 686 $aCC 7800$2rvk 700 $aChytry$b Josef$0145265 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9911009246803321 996 $aThe Aesthetic State$94396086 997 $aUNINA