Introduction: the scope and significance of Hegel's Aesthetics -- I. Art and the idea -- Truth and beauty: art as the sensuous appearance of the idea -- II. The particular forms of art -- Symbolic art: the distant divine -- Classical art: the embodied divine -- Romantic art: the human divine -- The dissolution and future of the particular arts -- III. The system of the individual arts -- Externality as symbol: architecture -- Individuality embodied: sculpture -- Subjectivity in retreat: painting -- The sound of feeling: music -- The language of inner imagination: poetry -- Embodied reconciliation: Poetic genres and the end of the individual arts -- Conclusion: aesthetic experience and the future of art.
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Hegel's Aesthetics is the first comprehensive interpretation of Hegel's philosophy of art in English in thirty years. It gives a new analysis of his notorious ""end of art"" thesis, shows the indispensability of his aesthetics to his philosophy generally, and argues for his theory's relevance today.