Art, myth, and society in Hegel's aesthetics
James, David, 1966-
Art, myth, and society in Hegel's aesthetics [electronic resource] / David James. - London ; New York : Continuum, 2009. - xii, 148 p. - Continuum studies in philosophy . - Continuum studies in philosophy. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Aesthetics.
Religion--Philosophy.
History--Philosophy.
Electronic books.
B2949.A4 / J36 2009eb
700.1
Art, myth, and society in Hegel's aesthetics [electronic resource] / David James. - London ; New York : Continuum, 2009. - xii, 148 p. - Continuum studies in philosophy . - Continuum studies in philosophy. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction.
Palo Alto, Calif. :
ebrary,
2013.
Available via World Wide Web.
Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.
Aesthetics.
Religion--Philosophy.
History--Philosophy.
Electronic books.
B2949.A4 / J36 2009eb
700.1