TY - BOOK AU - James,David ED - ebrary, Inc. TI - Art, myth, and society in Hegel's aesthetics T2 - Continuum studies in philosophy AV - B2949.A4 J36 2009eb U1 - 700.1 22 PY - 2009/// CY - London, New York PB - Continuum KW - Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, KW - Aesthetics KW - Religion KW - Philosophy KW - History KW - Electronic books KW - local N1 - 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 UR - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10315930 ER -