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Book SynopsisReconsiders the path of German philosophy from Kant to Nietzsche, in relation to consciousness, aesthetics and language. The book traces the beginning of modern debates on aesthetics and politics, as well as hermeneutics, paying attention to the significance of music in modern philosophy. -- .
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Aesthetics and modernity
Aesthetics and 'post-modernity'
1. Modern Philosophy and the Emergence of Aesthetic Theory: Kant
Self-consciousness, knowledge and freedom
The unification of nature
The purpose of beauty
The limits of beauty
2. German Idealism and Early German Romanticism
Thinking the Infinite
A 'new mythology'
3. Reflections on the Subject: Fichte, Holderlin and Novalis
Self and Other
Fichte
Holderlin
Novalis
4. Schelling: Art and the 'Organ of Philosophy'
Nature and philosophy
The development of consciousness
Intuition and concept
The 'organ of philosophy'
Mythology, art and modernity
Mythology, language and being
5. Hegel: the beginning of Aesthetic Theory and the end of Art
Which Hegel?
Self-recognition
Music and the Idea
Language, consciousness and being
The Idea as sensuous appearance
The prose of the modern world
Philosophy and art after Hegel
6. Schleiermacher: Art and Interpretation
Linguistic
The 'art of disagreement'
Immediate self-consciousness
Art as free production: 'individual' and 'identical' activity
Hemeneutics as art
Literature and the 'musical'
7. Music, Language and Literature
Language and music
Hegel and Romanticism: music, logos, and feeling
The 'presence' of music
'Infinite reflection' and music
8. Nietzsche and the Fate of Romantic Thought
The Old and the New Nietzsches
Schopenhauer: Music as Metaphysics
Marx, mythology, and art
Art, myth, and music in 'The Birth of Tragedy'
Myth, music, and language
The illusion of truth
Music and metaphysics
Aesthetics , 'interpretation', and subjectivity
Conclusion
The so-called
'Oldest System Programme of German Idealism'
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