Hegel on Beauty

• Verfasst von: Peters, Julia
• Titel: Hegel on Beauty
• Verf.angabe: Julia Peters
• Verlagsort: Hoboken
• Verlag: Taylor and Francis
• Jahr: 2014
• Umfang: Online-Ressource (172 p)
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy
• Fussnoten: Description based upon print version of record
• ISBN: 978-1-138-79595-2
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Sprache: eng
• Reproduktion: Print version: Hegel on Beauty
• K10plus-PPN: 805584684

Abstract

While the current philosophical debate surrounding Hegel's aesthetics focuses heavily on the philosopher's controversial 'end of art' thesis, its participants rarely give attention to Hegel's ideas on the nature of beauty and its relation to art. This study seeks to remedy this oversight by placing Hegel's views on beauty front and center. Peters asks us to rethink the common assumption that Hegelian beauty is exclusive to art and argues that for Hegel beauty, like art, is subject to historical development. Her careful analysis of Hegel's notion of beauty not only has crucial implications for