We are very glad to give notice of the release of the volume The Art of Hegel’s Aesthetics. Hegelian Philosophy and the Perspectives of Art History (Fink, 2018).
The volume is edited by Paul A. Kottman and Michael Squire, and contains contributions by W. Davis, J. Peters, M. Squire, F. Rush, H. Grootenboer, R. Pippin, T. J. Clark, P. A. Kottman, I. Torsen, S. Gardner.
From the publisher’s website:
This volume explores one of modernity’s most profound and far-reaching philosophies of art: the Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik, delivered by Georg Friedrich Wilhelm Hegel in the 1820s. The book has two overriding objectives: first, to ask how Hegel’s work illuminates specific periods and artworks in light of contemporary art-historical discussions; second, to explore how art history helps us make better sense and use of Hegelian aesthetics.
In bringing together a range of internationally acclaimed critical voices, the volume establishes an important disciplinary bridge between aesthetics and art history. Given the recent resurgence of interest in ‘global’ art history, and calls for more comparative approaches to ‘visual culture’, contributors ask what role Hegel has played within the field – and what role he could play in the future. What can a historical treatment of art accomplish? How should we explain the ‘need’ for certain artistic forms at different historical junctures? Has art history been ‘Hegelian’ without fully acknowledging it? Indeed, have art historians shirked some of the fundamental questions that Hegel raised?
You can read the table of contents at this link.
For further information about the volume, please visit the publisher’s website and the Academia.edu page of the editors.
