Paul Gordon - Art as the Absolute : Art's Relation to Metaphysics in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer read ebook DJV, TXT, FB2
9781501308017 English 1501308017 "Art as the Absolute" is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who followed after, including Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem of how one can "know" the absolute in non-conceptual, non-discursive terms.The idea of art's inherent relation to the absolute, first explicitly rendered by Kant, is examined in major works during the thirty-three year period from 1790 to 1823. The first and last chapters, on Plato and Nietzsche respectively, deal with precursors and "post-cursors" of this idea. Gordon shows and seeks to readdress the lack of attention to this idea after Hegel, as well as in contemporary reassessments of this period. "Art as the Absolute" will be of interest to students and scholars interested in exploring aesthetics from both a literary and philosophical perspective., Art and the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who followed after, including Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem of how one can "know" the absolute in non-conceptual, non-discursive terms.The idea of art's inherent relation to the absolute, first explicitly rendered by Kant, is examined in major works during the thirty-three year period from 1790 to 1823. The first and last chapters, on Plato and Nietzsche respectively, deal with precursors and "post-cursors" of this idea. Gordon shows and seeks to readdress the lack of attention to this idea after Hegel, as well as in contemporary reassessments of this period. Art and the Absolute will be of interest to students and scholars interested in exploring aesthetics from both a literary and philosophical perspective.
9781501308017 English 1501308017 "Art as the Absolute" is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who followed after, including Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem of how one can "know" the absolute in non-conceptual, non-discursive terms.The idea of art's inherent relation to the absolute, first explicitly rendered by Kant, is examined in major works during the thirty-three year period from 1790 to 1823. The first and last chapters, on Plato and Nietzsche respectively, deal with precursors and "post-cursors" of this idea. Gordon shows and seeks to readdress the lack of attention to this idea after Hegel, as well as in contemporary reassessments of this period. "Art as the Absolute" will be of interest to students and scholars interested in exploring aesthetics from both a literary and philosophical perspective., Art and the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who followed after, including Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem of how one can "know" the absolute in non-conceptual, non-discursive terms.The idea of art's inherent relation to the absolute, first explicitly rendered by Kant, is examined in major works during the thirty-three year period from 1790 to 1823. The first and last chapters, on Plato and Nietzsche respectively, deal with precursors and "post-cursors" of this idea. Gordon shows and seeks to readdress the lack of attention to this idea after Hegel, as well as in contemporary reassessments of this period. Art and the Absolute will be of interest to students and scholars interested in exploring aesthetics from both a literary and philosophical perspective.