Bosanquet Bernard - Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics

INTRODUCTORY LECTURES ON AESTHETICS

GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL was born in Stuttgart in 1770. In terms of cultural influence, he is the most important of modern philosophers, not only because of his relation to Marx and of the support his philosophy seemed to offer to European theories of nationalism and social democracy, but also because of his impact on the whole range of humanities. He published four major works in his lifetime: The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807), The Science of Logic (181216), The Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1817) and The Philosophy of Right (1821). But his reputation and influence also depend on his lectures, which were published posthumously by his friends and pupils. He was educated at the Tbingen theological seminary, where Hlderlin and Schelling were among his friends, and in 1801 he settled in Jena as an unsalaried lecturer. He completed The Phenomenology of Spirit in October 1806, on the night before the Battle of Jena, in which Napoleons victory put an end to the Holy Roman Empire (and temporarily closed the University). Over the next ten years Hegel was for a short time editor of a Napoleonic newspaper in Bamberg, and then headmaster of the Nuremberg high school. In 1811 he married Marie von Tucher. In 1816 he became professor of philosophy at Heidelberg University, and in 1818 was appointed to the chair at Berlin. He died in 1831.

BERNARD BOSANQUET was born in 1848 in Northumberland and educated at Harrow and Balliol College, Oxford. He became a Fellow of University College, Oxford, in 1870, teaching philosophy and ancient history. In 1881 he moved to London and devoted himself to charitable work, adult education and philosophical writing. From 1903 to 1908 he held the chair of moral philosophy at St Andrews. Bosanquet helped, along with F. H. Bradley and T. H. Green, to revive Hegelianism in England, and tried to apply it to social and political problems. He died in London in 1923. His works include Knowledge and Reality (1885), Logic or the Morphology of Knowledge (1888), History of Aesthetic (1892), and his Gifford lectures, The Principle of Individuality and Value (1912) and The Value and Destiny of the Individual(1913).

MICHAEL INWOOD was born in London in 1944 and educated at Alleyns School and University College, Oxford. Since 1967 he has been Fellow and Tutor in philosophy at Trinity College, Oxford. His books include Hegel (1983), A Hegel Dictionary (1992), Heidegger (1997) and A Heidegger Dictionary (1999). He is married to the classical scholar Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood.

GEORG WILHELM FRIEDRICH HEGEL

Translated by

BERNARD BOSANQUET

Edited with an Introduction and Commentary by

MICHAEL INWOOD

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This translation first published as The Introduction to Hegils Phtiosopky of Fine Art 1886
This edition first published 1993

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