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This work considers the status of art in the modern era. It takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation, that it is no longer through art that Spirit principally comes to knowledge of itself.

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Translator's notes 1. The most uncanny thing 2. Frenhofer and his double 3. The man of taste and the dialectic of the split 4. The cabinet of wonder 5. 'Les jugements sur la poe;sie ont plus de valeur que la poe;sie' 6. A self-annihilating nothing 7. Privation is like a face 8. Poiesis and praxis 9. The original structure of the work of art 10. The melancholy angel Notes.

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    Publisher: Stanford University Press
    Publication Date: 01/06/1999
    ISBN13: 9780804735544, 978-0804735544
    ISBN10: 0804735549
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This work considers the status of art in the modern era. It takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation, that it is no longer through art that Spirit principally comes to knowledge of itself.

    Table of Contents
    Translator's notes 1. The most uncanny thing 2. Frenhofer and his double 3. The man of taste and the dialectic of the split 4. The cabinet of wonder 5. 'Les jugements sur la poe;sie ont plus de valeur que la poe;sie' 6. A self-annihilating nothing 7. Privation is like a face 8. Poiesis and praxis 9. The original structure of the work of art 10. The melancholy angel Notes.

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