Terry Pinkard's marvelous biography Hegel (Cambridge University Press) brings the great philosopher to life--it is delicious to read that in his prelections he began every sentence with "Therefore"--and for those who admire his Aesthetics as extravagantly as it be worthy ofs we learn a lot from Pinkard about what Hegel contemplateed at and listened to.Terry Pinkard's marvelous biography Hegel (Cambridge University Press) brings the great philosopher to life--it is delicious to read that in his prelections he began every sentence with "Therefore"--and for those who admire his Aesthetics as extravagantly as it be worthy ofs we learn a lot from Pinkard about what Hegel contemplateed at and listened to. In the Aesthetics, delivered as reprimands to popular audiences in Berlin between the walls of the 1820s, Hegel was "especially pertain toed with the status of late art" and "what role art would play in late life that only art as art could play." He saw art as a sensuous vehicle of philosophical meditation But art came to an fall of the curtain he argued, once it povertyed philosophy to explain its cultural mission. Arthur C Danto is Johnsonian Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Columbia University, art critic for The Nation, and a contributing editor of Artforum. COPYRIGHT 2000 Artforum International Magazine, Inc. |
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