Aesthetics

Auteurs

• Nicolai Hartmann

Paramètres

• 557 pages
• 20 heures de lecture

• Philosophie

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This book presents the first English translation of Nicolai Hartmann's final work, originally published in 1953. It serves as a valuable resource for graduate philosophy students, scholars of 20th-century Continental philosophy, and those interested in aesthetics and art criticism. Hartmann posits that aesthetics revolves around beauty, which art "objectivates," but beauty is perceived only by a prepared observer. Part One delves into aesthetic appreciation and its connection to aesthetic objects, revealing phenomenologically determinable levels of perception. Beauty emerges when an observer looks beyond the physical aspects of a work to grasp the deeper layers shaped by the artist's expression. Hartmann's theory of stratification in aesthetic objects is a significant contribution to the field, distinguishing the ways beauty is perceived across nature, the performing and plastic arts, and literature. Part Two expands on the phenomenology of beauty in the fine arts and examines traditional European aesthetic categories, particularly unity of value and truth in art. Part Three contrasts aesthetic values with moral values, culminating in a phenomenological exploration of the sublime, the charming, and the comic. The appendix offers unfinished reflections on the ontological implications of aesthetics. Engaging with thinkers like Aristotle, Kant, and Hegel, Hartmann refines their insights through examples from art, considering trut

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• Année de publication: 2014
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