Hegel on art and aesthetics
pp. 687-703
in: Matthew C. Altman (ed), The Palgrave handbook of German idealism, Berlin, Springer, 2014Abstract
Hegel's approach to questions of art and beauty in his Lectures on Fine Art takes into consideration two competing narratives about aesthetic thought and its origin — one deriving from classical Greece and the other emerging in the eighteenth century — while offering an idealist stance from which the two can be synthesized. The synthesis which Hegel attempts raises a number of interesting questions about the relation between art and aesthetics and the relevant histories of those disciplines.
