Introduction
Part I: Art and the Idea
Chapter One: Truth and Beauty: Art as the Sensuous Appearance of
the Idea
Part II: The Particular Forms of Art
Chapter Two: Symbolic Art: The Distant Divine
Chapter Three: Classical Art: The Embodied Divine
Chapter Four: Romantic Art: The Human Divine
Chapter Five: The Dissolution and Future of the Particular Arts
Part III: The System of the Individual Arts
Chapter Six: Externality as Symbol: Architecture
Chapter Seven: Individuality Embodied: Sculpture
Chapter Eight: Subjectivity in Retreat: Painting
Chapter Nine: The Sound of Feeling: Music
Chapter Ten: The Language of Inner Imagination: Poetry
Chapter Eleven: Embodied Reconciliation: Poetic Subgenres and the
End of the Individual Arts
Conclusion
Lydia Moland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colby College.
She is the author of Hegel on Political Identity (Northwestern
University Press, 2011) and the editor of All Too Human: Laughter,
Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Springer,
2018). She has published articles on Hegel's political and
aesthetic philosophy, the playwright and philosopher Friedrich
Schiller, and the American abolitionist
Lydia Maria Child. She is the recipient of grants from the NEH, the
ACLS, and the American Academy in Berlin.
"...Moland...argues that a better understanding of Hegel's
aesthetics allows one to have a better vantage point for a more
comprehensive understanding of and appreciation for his idealism
and its role in the history of art...Unique to the book is Moland's
examination of particular forms of art and of particular works of
art that contributed to Hegel's own thoughts on aesthetics and
idealism. Indeed the book includes several pages of artwork that
factored into
the development of his thought. Moland engages in fascinating
commentary on these pieces of art and how they must all be seen as
contributing to a holistic Hegelian picture. This book will be of
great
use to those working on Hegel's aesthetics and his metaphysics and
philosophy of mind and psychology. Those unfamiliar with Hegel will
find the book a useful overview of Hegel's thought and his place in
the philosophical tradition." -- CHOICE
"Lydia Moland's book is a significant achievement. It is the first
comprehensive interpretation in English of Hegel's aesthetics, and
in its philosophical sophistication and historical erudition far
surpasses its predecessors. Moland is fearless and tenacious in
facing the many problems that arise in understanding Hegel's
aesthetics, and she offers solutions to them that scholars will
need to consider." -- Frederick Beiser, Professor of Philosophy,
Syracuse
University
"Lydia Moland's new book will be the go-to commentary on Hegel's
Aesthetics. She combines a comprehensive and systematic treatment
of the book as a whole with a sharp sense of contemporary issues
about art, its value, and our experience of it. Her reading
establishes Hegel's Aesthetics as the single most important book in
the history of the philosophy of art -- the one that is such that
grappling with it enables one to engage more productively
with a wider range of topics and problems about art than any other
single book. This is a major achievement" -- Richard Eldridge,
Charles and Harriett Cox McDowell Professor of Philosophy,
Swarthmore College
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