UID:
almafu_9959228922502883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 455 pages)
Edition:
Course Book
ISBN:
1-282-15891-0
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9786612158919
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1-4008-2716-7
Uniform Title:
Selections. 2006
Content:
A seminal figure in the philosophy of history, culture, and language, Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) also produced some of the most important and original works in the history of aesthetic theory. A student of Kant, he spent much of his life striving to reconcile the opposing poles of Enlightenment thought represented by his early mentors. His ideas influenced Hegel, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Dilthey, J. S. Mill, and Goethe. This book presents most of Herder's important writings on aesthetics, including the main sections of one of his major untranslated works, Kritische Wälder (Critical Forests). These notes, essays, and treatises, the majority of which appear here in English for the first time, show this idiosyncratic thinker both deeply rooted in the controversies of his day and pointing the way to future developments in aesthetics. Chosen to reflect the extent and diversity of Herder's concerns, the texts cover such topics as the psychology and physiology of aesthetic perception, the classification of the arts, taste, Shakespeare, the classical tradition, and the relationship between art and morality. Few thinkers have reflected so sensitively and productively on the cultural, historical, anthropological, ethical, and theological dimensions of art and the creative process. With this book, the importance of aesthetics to the evolution and texture of Herder's own thought, as well as his profound contribution to that discipline, comes fully into view.
Note:
Translated from the German.
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Is the beauty of the body a herald of the beauty of the soul? -- A monument to Baumgarten -- Critical forest, or reflections on the art and science of the beautiful: first grove, dedicated to Mr. Lessing's Laocoon -- Critical forests: fourth grove, on Riedel's Theory of the beaux arts -- Shakespeare -- The causes of sunken taste among the different peoples in whom it once blossomed -- On the influence of the belles lettres on the higher sciences -- Does painting or music have a greater effect?: a divine colloquy -- On image, poetry, and fable.
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Issued also in print.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-691-11595-8
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781400827169
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