Title: The aesthetic theories of Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer.
Authors: Knox, Israel, 1904-
Publisher: Humanities Press,
Year: 1958
Subjects: Kant, Immanuel, Aesthetics.; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich,; Schopenhauer, Arthur,; Aesthetics
Contents: Introduction. German aesthetic tradition from Baumgarten to Kant, Hegel, and Schopenhauer ; The object of this essay -- Kant's aesthetic theory. The three critiques (the critique of judgment in the context of Kant's metaphysics) ; The four determinations of the beautiful (exposition and criticism) ; The sublime ; Schiller's aesthetic theory -- Hegel's aesthetic theory. Hegel's aesthetic in the context of his metaphysics ; The stages and types of art ; The death of art ; Hegel's theory of tragedy -- Schopenhauer's aesthetic theory. Schopenhauer's aesthetic in the context of his metaphysics ; Basic presuppositions of Schopenhauer's aesthetic ; The specific arts ; Relationship between Schopenhauer's aesthetic theory and his ethics and metaphysics.