The Aesthetic Revolution in Germany : 1750-1950 - From Winckelmann to Nietzsche - from Nietzsche to Beckmann.
Evers, Meindert.
Frankfurt a.M. : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften,
2017.
The rationalisation of the world is answered in Germany by an Aesthetic Revolution (Winckelmann, the romantic movement). It culminates in Nietzsche, and becomes a conservative revolution in the 1920s. After 1945, Beckmann and M. Walser embody the necessity of the aesthetic perspective.
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Cover; Contents; Introduction; 1. The birth of the aesthetic man in Germany; 1.1. The birth of the aesthetic man. Johann Joachim Winckelmann; 1.1.1. The romantic rebellion; 1.1.2. Critical voices: from Heinrich Heine to Georg Lukács; 1.1.3. In defence of the romantic rebellion; 1.1.4. The aesthetic revolution as an alternative to the mechanistic world view.; Descartes (1596-1650); Francis Bacon (1561-1626); Isaac Newton (1642-1727); 1.1.5. The historical sense; Giambattista Vico (1668-1744); Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716); Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803)
Leopold von Ranke (1795-1886) and Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)1.2. Friedrich Schiller: Beauty and Freedom; 1.3. Friedrich Hölderlin: Beauty and Revolution; 1.4. Heinrich von Kleist: Radical Beauty; 1.5. Richard Wagner: Regeneration of the culture; 2. Nietzsche as culmination point of the aesthetic perspective; 2.1. On Nietzsche's life; 2.2. Nietzsche's criticism of historism; 2.3. Nietzsche's gospel of art.; 2.3.1. Dionysus against Christ; 3. The ambiguity of the aesthetic revolution; 3.1. The Fin de siècle: End or turning point? Between decadence and awakening
3.1.1. The Fin de siècle as a turning point3.2. The conservative Revolution. A discourse; 3.3. Stefan George: Art and 'Reich'; 3.4. Oswald Spengler: retrograde prophet?; 3.5. Thomas Mann: Aesthete nolens volens; 3.6. Gottfried Benn: architect of nihilism; 3.7. Max Beckmann: the artist as the new god; 3.7.1 Beckmann's Work; 4. Epilogue; 4.1. Martin Walser's novel A Gushing Fountain; 4.2. The necessity of an aesthetic perspective for the modern era; Illustrations; References; Chapter I; Johann Joachim Winckelmann; Romantic Rebellion and mechanistic world view; Historical Sense
Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Hölderlin; Heinrich von Kleist; Richard Wagner; Chapter II; Friedrich Nietzsche; Chapter III; Fin de siècle; Conservative Revolution; Stefan George; Thomas Mann; Oswald Spengler; Gottfried Benn; Max Beckmann; Epilogue; Index of Names
The rationalisation of the world is answered in Germany by an Aesthetic Revolution (Winckelmann, the romantic movement). It culminates in Nietzsche, and becomes a conservative revolution in the 1920s. After 1945, Beckmann and M. Walser embody the necessity of the aesthetic perspective.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Aesthetics, German
Philosophical anthropology.
Aesthetics, German.
Philosophical anthropology.
The Aesthetic Revolution in Germany : 1750-1950 - From Winckelmann to Nietzsche - from Nietzsche to Beckmann
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