Hegel Georg Wilhelm Friedrich - Art, Myth and Society in Hegels Aesthetics

Art, Myth and Society in
Hegels Aesthetics

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Art, Myth and Society in
Hegels Aesthetics

David James

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James, David.

Art, myth, and society in Hegels aesthetics/David James.

p. cm. (Continuum studies in philosophy)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-8264-2560-7 (HB)

ISBN-10: 0-8264-2560-7 (HB)

1. Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831. 2. Aesthetics. 3. ReligionPhilosophy.
4. HistoryPhilosophy. I. Title. II. Series.

B2949.A4J36 2009

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To my son, Benjamin

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Acknowledgements

This book was completed during a postdoctoral fellowship supported by the South African National Research Foundation.

I would like to thank Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert for making copies of some of the unpublished transcripts of Hegels lectures on aesthetics available to me, and for organizing a discussion of this book at the FernUniversitt in Hagen. The comments made during this discussion were of great benefit when it came to revising the book for publication.

is based on a previously published article, The Significance of Kierkegaards Interpretation of Don Giovanni in Relation to Hegels Philosophy of Art, British Journal for the History of Philosophy 16(1) (2008).

Abbreviations of Works by Hegel

GW Gesammelte Werke, ed. Rheinisch-Westflischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in association with the Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1968).

Anon. 1828/29 sthetik/von Hegel. Anonymus 1828/29; Ms. xx (Manuscript belonging to the Staatsbibliothek Preuischer Kulturbesitz Berlin).

Ascheberg 1820/21 Vorlesung ber sthetik: Berlin 1820/21; eine Nachschrift, ed. Helmut Schneider (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 1995).

BriefeBriefe von und an Hegel, ed. Johannes Hoffmeister, 4 vols. (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1969).

Hegel: The Letters, trans. Clark Butler and Christiane Seiler (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984).

Enzyklopdie (1830) Enzyklopdie der philosophischen Wissenschaften im Grundrisse (1830), eds. Wolfgang Bonsiepen and Hans-Christian Lucas in collaboration with Udo Rameil. GW Vol. 20.

Encyclopaedia Logic, trans. T. F. Geraets, W. A. Suchting and H. S. Harris (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1991).

Hegels Philosophy of Mind, trans. William Wallace & A. V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971).

TJS Hegels theologische Jugendschriften, ed. Herman Nohl (Tbingen: Mohr, 1907).

Early Theological Writings, trans. T. M. Knox (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971).

Hotho 1823 Vorlesungen ber die Philosophie der Kunst. Berlin 1823.Nachgeschrieben von Henrich Gustav Hotho, ed. Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert. G.W. F. Hegel: Vorlesungen. Ausgewhlte Nachschriften und Manuskripte, Band 2 (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1998).

Kehler 1826 Philosophie der Kunst oder sthetik nach Hegel. Im Sommer 1826 Mitschrift Friedrich Carl Hermann Victor von Kehler, eds. Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert and Bernadette Collenberg-Plotnikov in collaboration with Francesca Ianneli and Karsten Berr (Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2004).

Libelt 1828/29 sthetik nach Prof. Hegel im Winter Semester 1828/29 Mitschrift Karol Libelt (Manuscript belonging to the Jagiellonion Library Cracow).

PhG Phnomenologie des Geistes, eds. Wolfgang Bonsiepen and Reinhard Heede. GW Vol. 9.

Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A. V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977).

PR Grundlinien der Philosophie des Rechts, in Werke, eds. Eva Moldenhauer and Karl Markus Michel (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1970), Vol. 7.

Elements of the Philosophy of Right, trans. H. B. Nisbet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

VG Die Vernunft in der Geschichte, ed. J. Hoffmeister (Hamburg: Felix Meiner, 1994).

Lectures on the Philosophy of History: Introduction, trans. H. B. Nisbet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975).

von der Pfordten 1826 Philosophie der Kunst. Vorlesung von 1826, eds. Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert, Jeong-Im Kwon and Karsten Berr (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2005).