The Man Without Content (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)
Contributors: Georgia Albert (Translator)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: June 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 130
ISBN-13: 9780804735544
Subjects: Aesthetics; Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Aesthetics, Modern; Philosophy; Philosophy / Aesthetics; 20th century; Art
First sentence: In the third essay of the Genealogy of Morals, Nietzsche subjects the Kantian definition of the beautiful as disinterested pleasure to a radical critique: Kant thought he was honoring art when among the predicates of beauty he emphasized and gave prominence to those which established the honor of knowledge: impersonality and universality.
Description: In this book, one of Italy's most important and original contemporary philosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He 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. He argues, however, that Hegel by no means proclaimed the "death of art" (as many still imagine) but proclaimed rather the indefinite continuation of art in what Hegel called a "self-annulling" mode.