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.
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9780511057434
Publisert
2013
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Cambridge University Press
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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