Art, myth, and society in Hegel's aesthetics

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Main Author: James, David, 1966-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Continuum, 2009.
Series:Continuum studies in philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The symbolic form of art
  • Kant's theory of the mathematical sublime and the boundlessness of the symbolic form of art
  • The classical sublimity of Judaism
  • The classical form of art
  • The original epic
  • The ideal
  • The transition to the revealed religion and the romantic form of art
  • The revealed religion
  • Representational thought and the romantic form of art
  • Traces of left-hegelianism in Hegel's lectures on aesthetics
  • The end of mythology
  • The significance of Kierkegaard's interpretation of Don Giovanni in relation to Hegel's theory of the end of art
  • The end of art
  • The opera as a modern art form
  • Hegel and Lukács's on the possibility of a modern epic
  • The problem of a modern epic
  • The modern epic and history
  • Civil society as the background to the modern epic
  • Myth and society : a common theme in the thought of Hegel and Sorel
  • Sorel's myth of the general strike
  • Myth and modern ethical life.