Art as the Absolute: Art's Relation to Metaphysics in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer

Professor Paul Gordon (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)

Art as the Absolute: Art's Relation to Metaphysics in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Country
United States
Published
24 September 2015
Pages
216
ISBN
9781501308017

Art as the Absolute: Art’s Relation to Metaphysics in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer

Professor Paul Gordon (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)

Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who followed after, including Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem of how one can know the absolute in non-conceptual, non-discursive terms.

The idea of art’s inherent relation to the absolute, first explicitly rendered by Kant, is examined in major works from 1790 to 1823. The first and last chapters, on Plato and Nietzsche respectively, deal with precursors and post-cursors of this idea. Gordon shows and seeks to reddress the lack of attention to this idea after Hegel, as well as in contemporary reassessments of this period. Art as the Absolute will be of interest to students and scholars studying aesthetics from both a literary and philosophical perspective.

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