Jean-Marie Schaeffer Art of the modern age

philosophy of art from Kant to Heidegger

Survey of aesthetic theory from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, exploring the writings of Kant, Schlegel, Novalis, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche and Heidegger, to show that these diverse thinkers shared a common approach to art: the 'speculativ theory'. According to this theory, art offers a special kind of intuitive, quasi-mystical knowledge, radically different from the rational knowledge acquired by science.

Engels | 352 pagina's | Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ [etc.] | 2000

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