Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics

Author:   J. M. Bernstein (New School University, New York)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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This 2002 volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously influential in this crucial period of aesthetics. These texts include the first translation into English of Schiller's Kallias Letters and Moritz's On the Artistic Imitation of the Beautiful, together with translations of some of Hölderlin's most important theoretical writings and works by Hamann, Lessing, Novalis and Schlegel. In a philosophical introduction J. M. Bernstein traces the development of aesthetics from its still rationalist and mimetic construction in Lessing, through the optimistic construal of art and/or beauty as the appearance of human freedom in the work of Schiller, to Hölderlin's darker vision of art as the memory of a lost unity, and the variations of that theme - of an impossible striving after the lost ideal - which are found in the work of Schlegel and Novalis.

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Author:   J. M. Bernstein (New School University, New York)
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
ISBN:  

9780511803734


ISBN 10:   0511803737
Publication Date:   05 June 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
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Hamann: Aesthetica in nuce; Lessing: Laöcoon; Moritz: On the Artistic Imitation of the Beautiful; Schiller: Kallias Letters; Hölderlin: Oldest Program for a System of German Idealism; Letter to Hegel; Being Judgement Possibility; The Significance of Tragedy; Remarks on Oedipus; Novalis: From Miscellaneous Remarks; Monologue; Dialogues; On Goethe; Studies in the Visual Arts; Schlegel: From 'Critical Fragments'; From 'Athenaeum Fragments'; From 'Ideas'; On Goethe's Meister; Letter about the Novel; On Incomprehensibility.

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J. M. Bernstein is Professor of Philosophy at the New School University, New York.

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