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Author Hammermeister, Kai

Title The German aesthetic tradition / Kai Hammermeister
Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 259 pages)
Contents PART I. THE AGE OF PARADIGMS: -- Baumgarten, Mendelssohn -- Kant -- Schiller -- Schelling -- Hegel -- PART II. CHALLENGING THE PARADIGMS: -- Schopenhauer -- Kierkegaard, Nietzsche -- PART III. RENEWING THE PARADIGMS: -- Cassirer, Lukàcs -- Heidegger, Gadamer -- Adorno
Summary This is the only available systematic overview of German aesthetics from 1750 to the present. It begins with the work of Baumgarten and covers all the major writers on German aesthetics that follow. It offers a clear, non-technical exposition of ideas, placing these in a wider philosophical context where necessary
Analysis Humaniora Filosofi
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-255) and index
Notes English
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Subject Aesthetics, German.
Aesthetics, German -- History
PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
Aesthetics, German
Ästhetik
Esthetica.
Estética (filosofia) -- Alemanha.
Esthétique -- Allemagne -- Histoire.
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