Selected Writings on Aesthetics

Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-691-11595-5
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 468 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 863 g

A seminal figure in the philosophy of history, culture, and language, Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803) also produced some of the most important and original works in the history of aesthetic theory. A student of Kant, he spent much of his life striving to reconcile the opposing poles of Enlightenment thought represented by his early mentors. His ideas influenced Hegel, Schleiermacher, Nietzsche, Dilthey, J. S. Mill, and Goethe. This book presents most of Herder's important writings on aesthetics, including the main sections of one of his major untranslated works, Kritische Wälder (Critical Forests). These notes, essays, and treatises, the majority of which appear here in English for the first time, show this idiosyncratic thinker both deeply rooted in the controversies of his day and pointing the way to future developments in aesthetics. Chosen to reflect the extent and diversity of Herder's concerns, the texts cover such topics as the psychology and physiology of aesthetic perception, the classification of the arts, taste, Shakespeare, the classical tradition, and the relationship between art and morality. Few thinkers have reflected so sensitively and productively on the cultural, historical, anthropological, ethical, and theological dimensions of art and the creative process. With this book, the importance of aesthetics to the evolution and texture of Herder's own thought, as well as his profound contribution to that discipline, comes fully into view.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Herder, Johann Gottfried

Moore, Gregory Martin

Weitere Mitwirkende

Moore, Gregory

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Note on the Texts ix

Introduction 1

Is the Beauty of the Body a Herald of the Beauty of the Soul? 31

A Monument to Baumgarten 41

Critical Forests, or Reflections on the Art and Science of the Beautiful: First Grove, Dedicated to Mr. Lessing's Laoco?n 51

Critical Forests: Fourth Grove, On Riedel's Theory of the Beaux Arts 177

Shakespeare 291

The Causes of Sunken Taste among the Different Peoples in Whom It Once Blossomed 308

On the Influence of the Belles Lettres on the Higher Sciences 335

Does Painting or Music Have a Greater Effect?

A Divine Colloquy 347

On Image, Poetry, and Fable 357

Editor's Notes 383

Bibliography 445

Index 449

Über Autor(innen)

Gregory Moore is Lecturer in German at the University of St. Andrews. He is the author of "Nietzsche, Biology and Metaphor", and is coeditor of "Nietzsche and Science".