Art, myth and society in Hegel's aesthetics. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: David James.
• Other Names: James, David, 1966-
• Contents: The symbolic form of art -- Kant's theory of the mathematical sublime and the boundlessness of the symbolic form of art -- The classical sublimity of Judaism -- The classical form of art -- The original epic -- The ideal -- The transition to the revealed religion and the romantic form of art -- The revealed religion -- Representational thought and the romantic form of art -- Traces of left-hegelianism in Hegel's lectures on aesthetics -- The end of mythology -- The significance of Kierkegaard's interpretation of Don Giovanni in relation to Hegel's theory of the end of art -- The end of art -- The opera as a modern art form -- Hegel and Lukács's on the possibility of a modern epic -- The problem of a modern epic -- The modern epic and history -- Civil society as the background to the modern epic -- Myth and society : a common theme in the thought of Hegel and Sorel -- Sorel's myth of the general strike -- Myth and modern ethical life.
• Publisher Details: London : Continuum
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (160 pages)
• Subjects: 700.1; Philosophy -- Aesthetics; Aesthetics; Religion -- Philosophy; History -- Philosophy; Philosophy: aesthetics
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781441164711; 1441164715
• Related ISBNs: 9781441172105
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