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Book Title
Art of the Modern Age : Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger
Publication Date
2000-04-24
Pages
448
ISBN
9780691016696
Book Series
New French Thought Ser.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Item Length
9 in
Publication Year
2000
Type
Textbook
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Jean-Marie Schaeffer
Genre
Art, Philosophy
Topic
Criticism & Theory, History & Surveys / Modern, Aesthetics, History / General
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Width
6 in
Number of Pages
448 Pages

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This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, combined with a carefully reasoned plea for a new and more flexible approach to art. Jean-Marie Schaeffer, one of France's leading aestheticians, explores the writings of Kant, Schlegel, Novalis, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger to show that these diverse thinkers shared a common approach to art, which he calls the "speculative theory." According to this theory, art offers a special kind of intuitive, quasi-mystical knowledge, radically different from the rational knowledge acquired by science. This view encouraged theorists to consider artistic geniuses the high-priests of humanity, creators of works that reveal the invisible essence of the world. Philosophers came to regard inexpressibility as the aim of art, refused to consider second-tier creations genuine art, and helped to create conditions in which the genius was expected to shock, puzzle, and mystify the public. Schaeffer shows that this speculative theory helped give birth to romanticism, modernism, and the avant-garde, and paved the way for an unfortunate divorce between art and enjoyment, between "high art" and popular art, and between artists and their public. Rejecting the speculative approach, Schaeffer concludes by defending a more tolerant theory of art that gives pleasure its due, includes popular art, tolerates less successful works, and accounts for personal tastes. " A] remarkable work.... Schaeffer's] writing is governed by ... the ideals of clarity and consequence, the ideas of logic, truth, and evidence.... Schaeffer is so precise and unrelenting a philosophical critic that one wonders how some of the philosophies he anatomizes here can possibly survive the operation."--From the foreword by Arthur C. Danto

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Publisher
Princeton University Press
ISBN-10
0691016690
ISBN-13
9780691016696
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1874616

Product Key Features

Book Title
Art of the Modern Age : Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger
Number of Pages
448 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2000
Topic
Criticism & Theory, History & Surveys / Modern, Aesthetics, History / General
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Philosophy
Type
Textbook
Author
Jean-Marie Schaeffer
Book Series
New French Thought Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in

Additional Product Features

Dewey Edition
21
Reviews
Art of the Modern Ageis an important contribution to the field, and its readership should not be limited to philosophers. While Schaeffer is not afraid to do the necessary detail work, he never gets mired in issues of merely scholastic interest., " Art of the Modern Age is an important contribution to the field, and its readership should not be limited to philosophers. While Schaeffer is not afraid to do the necessary detail work, he never gets mired in issues of merely scholastic interest." ---F.L. Rush, Bookforum, " Art of the Modern Age is an important contribution to the field, and its readership should not be limited to philosophers. While Schaeffer is not afraid to do the necessary detail work, he never gets mired in issues of merely scholastic interest." --F.L. Rush, Bookforum, " Art of the Modern Age is an important contribution to the field, and its readership should not be limited to philosophers. While Schaeffer is not afraid to do the necessary detail work, he never gets mired in issues of merely scholastic interest."-- F.L. Rush, Bookforum, "This academically solid, well-documented book . . . [offers] very good background for courses in the history of aesthetics or art theory."-- Choice, This academically solid, well-documented book . . . [offers] very good background for courses in the history of aesthetics or art theory., "This academically solid, well-documented book . . . [offers] very good background for courses in the history of aesthetics or art theory." -- Choice, Art of the Modern Age is an important contribution to the field, and its readership should not be limited to philosophers. While Schaeffer is not afraid to do the necessary detail work, he never gets mired in issues of merely scholastic interest. ---F.L. Rush, Bookforum
Lccn
99-038862
Series Volume Number
2
Target Audience
College Audience
Dewey Decimal
111/.85/0903
Lc Classification Number
Bh151.S3313 2000
Table of Content
Foreword. The Speculative Philosophers of Art by Arthur C. Danto ix Introduction 3 Part One: WHAT IS PHILOSOPHICAL AESTHETICS? CHAPTER 1 Kantian Prolegomena to an Analytic Aesthetics 17 THE JUDGMENT OF TASTE AND FINALITY WITHOUT REPRESENTATION OF A SPECIFIC END 19 NATURAL BEAUTY AND ARTIFICIAL BEAUTY: THE STATUS OF THE FINE ARTS 31 GENIUS AND TASTE 40 THE WORK OF ART IN KANT AND IN ROMANTICISM 49 AESTHETICS, META-AESTHETICS, AND THEORY OF ART 55 Part Two: THE SPECULATIVE THEORY OF ART CHAPTER 2 The Birth of the Speculative Theory of Art 67 Poetry as the Sublation of Metaphysics (Novalis) 72 FROM PHILOSOPHY TO POETRY 73 THE SPECULATIVE THEORY OF POETRY 81 QUESTIONS 90 The History of Literature as a Speculative Project (Friedrich Schlegel) 96 HISTORICISM 97 LITERATURE 102 THEORY AND HISTORY OF LITERATURE 107 LITERATURE AS AN ORGANISM 114 ANCIENT AND MODERN 121 THE THEORY OF GENRES 129 CHAPTER 3 The System of Art (Hegel) 135 ART 138 ART, PHILOSOPHY, AND RELIGION 146 PHILOSOPHICAL KNOWLEDGE OF ART: SYSTEM AND HISTORY 152 ART AS AN ORGANIC SYSTEM 158 THE ARTS 166 THE ART OF ART: POETRY 174 CHAPTER 4 Ecstatic Vision or Cosmic Fiction? 182 From AnagoGy to Artistic Redemption (Schopenhauer) 186 THE PLACE OF ART 186 FROM ART TO THE ARTS 194 FROM ART AS DETACHMENT TO PHILOSOPHICAL WISDOM 201 The Fiction of Truth and the Truth of Fiction (Nietzsche) 208 ART AS A FUNDAMENTAL METAPHYSICAL ACTIVITY 210 THE GENEALOGY OF ART 222 ART AND THE WILL TO POWER 230 CHAPTER 5 Art as the Thought of Being (Heidegger) 237 HEIDEGGER AND ROMANTICISM 239 ART AND TRUTH OF BEING 246 ART AS HISTORICAL FOUNDATION AND AS ECSTATIC DEVIATION 252 POETRY AND THOUGHT 256 AN INTERPRETIVE PRACTICE 265 CONCLUSION What the Speculative Tradition Misunderstood 273 THE SPECULATIVE THEORY OF ART IN "THE MODERN ART WORLD" 274 THE SPECULATIVE THEORY OF ART AS A PERSUASIVE DEFINITION: CONCERNING "MODERNIST" HISTORICISM 284 AESTHETICS AND ART 292 ON AESTHETIC PLEASURE 298 Notes 309 Index of Names 347 Index of Concepts 351
Copyright Date
2000

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