Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics
by G. W. F. Hegel · Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik
Assigned by 1 of the 9 reading lists, catalogue entry only
- Written
- lectures 1820-1829, published 1835
- Form
- Treatise
- Language
- German
- Length
- Medium · 200 pp120 to 300 pages
- Difficulty
- Difficult4 of 5 for a first-year reader
We recommendIntroductory Lectures on Aesthetics, translated by Bernard BosanquetPenguin Classics, 1993Michael Inwood's edition of the introduction, the part nearly everyone reads; T. M. Knox's two-volume Oxford set has the whole.
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The introduction to Hegel's lectures on fine art, delivered in Heidelberg and Berlin and assembled by his student Heinrich Gustav Hotho after his death. Hegel argues that beauty in art ranks above beauty in nature because it is born of spirit, that art is one of the three ways, with religion and philosophy, in which spirit knows itself, and that it develops historically through symbolic, classical and romantic forms. He also holds that in the modern world art has ceased to be the highest way in which truth finds existence.
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