Contributions

  • Georgia Albert (Translator) - Contributor

Publication

1999-06-01 - Stanford University Press

Language

English

Word Count

32,500 words, Guess

Page Count

130 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number99021526
  • LibraryThing9782
  • Goodreads298977

Classifications

  • LCCBH201 .A413 1999

Description

In this book, one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation, that it is no longer through art that Spirit principally comes to knowledge of itself. He argues, however, that Hegel by no means proclaimed the "death of art" (as many still imagine) but proclaimed rather the indefinite continuation of art in what Hegel called a "self-annulling" mode.

First Sentence

In the third essay of the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche subjects the Kantian definition of the beautiful as disinterested pleasure to a radical critique: Kant thought he was honoring art when among the predicates of beauty he emphasized and gave prominence to those which established the honor of knowledge: impersonality and universality.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The Man Without Content (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)PaperbackStanford University Press1999-06-01

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