Essays on Kant, Schelling, and German Aesthetics
Essays on Kant, Schelling, and German Aesthetics

Author: Henry Crabb Robinson

Publisher: MHRA

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 0947623884

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As a student at the University of Jena at the beginning of the nineteenth century, Henry Crabb Robinson (1775-1867) became the outstanding English mediator of the revolution in German thought. For the first time, this volume collects his early writings, both published and unpublished. The contents include 'Letters on the Philosophy of Kant' and notes from F.W.J. Schelling's lectures on the philosophy of art. Further, Robinson's private lectures for Madame de Staël are presented with her marginalia. In the intellectual history of Romanticism, Robinson emerges as a major figure whose lucid and entertaining essays can still guide the modern reader through the key German texts.

Interpreting Schelling
Interpreting Schelling

Author: Lara Ostaric

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-09-29

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1107018927

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The first volume on Schelling in English exploring the study of the history of philosophy and core systematic philosophical issues.

The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency
The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency

Author: Ayon Maharaj

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2013-02-28

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1441140840

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This study examines how key figures in the German aesthetic tradition — Kant, Schelling, Friedrich Schlegel, Hegel, and Adorno — attempted to think through the powers and limits of art in post-Enlightenment modernity. Ayon Maharaj argues that the aesthetic speculations of these thinkers provide the conceptual resources for a timely dialectical defense of "aesthetic agency"— art's capacity to make available uniquely valuable modes of experience that escape the purview of Enlightenment scientific rationality. Blending careful philosophical analysis with an intellectual historian's attention to the broader cultural resonance of philosophical arguments, Maharaj has two interrelated aims. He provides challenging new interpretations of the aesthetic philosophies of Kant, Schelling, Schlegel, Hegel, and Adorno by focusing on aspects of their thought that have been neglected or misunderstood in Anglo-American and German scholarship. He demonstrates that their subtle investigations into the nature and scope of aesthetic agency have far-reaching implications for contemporary discourse on the arts. The Dialectics of Aesthetic Agency is an important and original contribution to scholarship on the German aesthetic tradition and to the broader field of aesthetics.

Symbol and Intuition
Symbol and Intuition

Author: Helmut Huehn

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-12-02

Total Pages: 411

ISBN-13: 1351193171

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"That a symbolic object or work of art participates in what it signifies, as a part within a whole, was a controversial claim discussed with particular intensity in the wake of Immanuel Kant's Critique of Judgment. It informed the aesthetic theories of a constellation of writers in Jena and Weimar around 1800, including Moritz, Goethe, Schelling and Hegel. Yet the twin concepts of symbol and intuition were not only tools of literary and mythological criticism: they were integral even to questions of epistemology and methodology in the fields of theology, metaphysics, history and natural philosophy. The international contributors to this volume further explore how both the explanatory potential and peculiar dissatisfactions of the symbol entered the Anglo-American discourse, focusing on Coleridge, Crabb Robinson and Emerson. Contemporary debates about the claims of symbolic as opposed to allegorical art are kept in view throughout."

Amorous Aesthetics
Amorous Aesthetics

Author: Seth T. Reno

Publisher: Romantic Reconfigurations Stud

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1786940833

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Amorous Aesthetics traces the development of intellectual love from its first major expression in Baruch Spinoza's Ethics, through its adoption and adaptation in eighteenth-century moral and natural philosophy, to its emergence as a Romantic tradition in the work of six major poets.

Aesthetics and Subjectivity
Aesthetics and Subjectivity

Author: Andrew Bowie

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2003-07-18

Total Pages: 358

ISBN-13: 9780719057380

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This new, completely revised and re-written edition of Aesthetics and subjectivity brings up to date the original book's account of the path of German philosophy from Kant, via Fichte and Holderlin, the early Romantis, Schelling, Hegel, Schleimacher, to Nietzsche, in view of recent historical research and contemporary arguments in philosophy and theory in the humanities.

Aesthetic Reason and Imaginative Freedom
Aesthetic Reason and Imaginative Freedom

Author: María del Rosario Acosta López

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 2018-10-01

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1438472196

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Shows the relevance of Schiller’s thought for contemporary philosophy, particularly aesthetics, ethics, and politics. This book seeks to draw attention to Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805) as a philosophical thinker in his own right. For too long, his philosophical contribution has been neglected in favor of his much-deserved reputation as a political playwright. The essays in this collection make two arguments. First, Schiller presents a robust philosophical program that can be favorably compared to those of his age, including Rousseau, Kant, Schelling, and Hegel, and he proves to be their equal in his thinking on morality, aesthetics, and politics. Second, Schiller can also guide us in our more contemporary philosophical concerns and approaches, such as phenomenology, hermeneutics, aesthetics, and politics. Here, Schiller instructs us in our engagement with figures such as Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault, Jacques Rancière, Roberto Esposito, and others.

The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism
The Imagination in German Idealism and Romanticism

Author: Gerad Gentry

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-06-13

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 1107197708

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Explores imagination and human rationality in a crucial period of philosophy, from hermeneutics and transcendental logic to ethics and aesthetics.