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Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik

Lectures on Aesthetics

G. W. F. Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel · 1770 – 1831

lectures of the 1820s, published 1835–1838GermanyGermanAesthetics

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Assembled from Hegel's Berlin lectures after his death, this is the grand attempt to place every art in history: symbolic, classical and romantic forms, and a ladder from architecture through sculpture and painting to music and poetry. Its system can feel forced, but its readings of Greek tragedy and of particular arts remain rich, and its claim that art had become a thing of the past still provokes.

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