Aristotle

Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art

Oxford University Press · 1988

Hegel’s lectures on the philosophy of art and the historical development of artistic forms.

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 30 Jun 1988
Language: English
Print length: 638

About the book

Description

These lectures present Hegel’s conception of art as the sensuous manifestation of the Idea, tracing its development through the symbolic, classical and romantic forms, and the hierarchy of the arts from architecture to poetry. Among the deepest contributions to the history of aesthetics, including the celebrated thesis on the ‘end of art.’