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Aesthetics and subjectivity : from Kant to Nietzsche.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Manchester, Uk; : Manchester University Press, 2003Edition: 2nd editionDescription: viii, 345 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0719057388
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111.85 BOW
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Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 111.85 BOW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002000361312

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

New, completely revised and re-written edition. Offers a detailed but accessible account of the vital German philosophical tradition of thinking about art and the self. Looks at recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and theory in the humanities, following the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Fichte and Holderlin, the early Romantics, Schelling, Hegel, Schleiermacher, to Nietzsche. Develops the approaches to subjectivity, aesthetics, music and language in relation to new theoretical developments bridging the divide between the continental and analytical traditions of philosophy. The huge growth of interest in German philosophy as a resource for re-thinking both literary and cultural theory, and contemporary philosophy will make this an indispensable read

Includes bibliographic references and index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Aesthetics and modernity
  • Aesthetics and 'post-modernity'
  • 1 Modern Philosophy and the Emergence of Aesthetic Theory: Kant
  • Self-consciousness, knowledge and freedom
  • The unification of nature
  • The purpose of beauty
  • The limits of beauty
  • 2 German Idealism and Early German Romanticism
  • Thinking the Infinite
  • A 'new mythology'
  • 3 Reflections on the Subject: Fichte, Holderlin and Novalis
  • Self and Other
  • Fichte
  • Holderlin
  • Novalis
  • 4 Schelling: Art and the 'Organ of Philosophy'
  • Nature and philosophy
  • The development of consciousness
  • Intuition and concept
  • The 'organ of philosophy'
  • Mythology, art and modernity
  • Mythology, language and being
  • 5 Hegel: the beginning of Aesthetic Theory and the end of Art
  • Which Hegel?
  • Self-recognition
  • Music and the Idea
  • Language, consciousness and being
  • The Idea as sensuous appearance
  • The prose of the modern world
  • Philosophy and art after Hegel
  • 6 Schleiermacher: Art and Interpretation
  • Linguistic
  • The 'art of disagreement'
  • Immediate self-consciousness
  • Art as free production: 'individual' and 'identical' activity
  • Hemeneutics as art
  • Literature and the 'musical'
  • 7 Music, Language and Literature
  • Language and music
  • Hegel and Romanticism: music, logos, and feeling
  • The 'presence' of music
  • 'Infinite reflection' and music
  • 8 Nietzsche and the Fate of Romantic Thought
  • The Old and the New Nietzsches
  • Schopenhauer: Music as Metaphysics
  • Marx, mythology, and art
  • Art, myth, and music in 'The Birth of Tragedy'
  • Myth, music, and language
  • The illusion of truth
  • Music and metaphysics
  • Aesthetics, 'interpretation', and subjectivity
  • Conclusion
  • The so-called
  • 'Oldest System Programme of German Idealism'
  • References

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Andrew Bowie is Chair of German at Royal Holloway University of London

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