Sense Is This Wonderful Word... Hegel and the Aesthetic

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-74682-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 40, 239 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Critical Studies in German Idealism

A quest for sense is often taken to be a, if not the, main task of philosophy. Still, the relationship between philosophy and sense remains a complicated one, as “sense” is both what is most immediate in perception and what is most abstract and distant from perceptual immediacy. Such apparent contradiction is directly taken on by Hegel. The present collection reunites explorations of Hegel’s conception of sense from multiple perspectives, unified by their common reference to the aesthetic dimension. In turn, the complexity of “sense” allows different aspects of Hegel's concept of the aesthetic to emerge, also in relation to contemporary debates.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ramazzotto, Nicola

Romagnoli, Elena

Siani, Alberto L.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie Westliche Philosophie: Neuzeit

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Notes on Contributors

Introduction Nicola Ramazzotto, Elena Romagnoli and Alberto L. Siani

1 Absolute Spirit Christian Krijnen

2 Sensation and Thing’s Finite Mode of Existence: How to Do Justice to the Real Externalities of Beings Cinzia Ferrini

3 Hegel and the Truth of Art Marina F. Bykova

4 The Sense of Representation: on the Role of Vorstellung in Hegel’s Aesthetics Francesco Campana

5 Hegel’s Notion of Symbol: the Aesthetic Experience between System and Interpretation Mario Farina

6 Aesthetic Variations: Hegel between Philosophy of Art and Callistics Alberto L. Siani

7 The Forms of Art: Symbolic, Iconic (Sculpture), Functional (Music) Bruno Haas

8 Hegel on Tragedy Michael N. Forster

9 Hegel and the Sense of Poetry Nicola Ramazzotto

10 Other Deaths of Art: on Some Antecedents of the Hegelian Thesis Paolo D’Angelo

11 From Plasticity to Movement: Human Body in Hegel’s Aesthetics Elena Romagnoli

12 Hegel und die Wahlverwandtschaften Klaus Vieweg

13 Hegel and World-Historical Art: Miles Davis in Berlin, 29 October 1983 Kenneth R. Westphal

14 Die Galaxie des Hyperästhetischen bei Hegel Francesca Iannelli

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicola Ramazzotto recently completed his Ph.D. in aesthetics at the University of Pisa. His research focuses on German idealism, phenomenology, and pragmatism. He edited L’estetica pragmatista in dialogo (Edizioni ETS, 2022) and Dewey’s Experience and Nature: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Elena Romagnoli is Junior Assistant Professor of aesthetics in the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge at the University of Pisa. She has published monographs, translations and many articles. She coedited Gadamer on Art and Aesthetic Experience. Rethinking Hermeneutical Aesthetics Today (SUNY Press, 2025).

Alberto L. Siani is Associate Professor of aesthetics in the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge at the University of Pisa. He is the author of Hegel and the Present of Art’s Past Character (Routledge, 2024) and Landscape Aesthetics: Toward an Engaged Ecology (Columbia University Press, 2024), among other publications.