The 90-page Introduction to Vol I of the Lectures is an overview of Hegel’s theory of fine art – if you only read one thing by Hegel on art, read that. The occasional page numbers below refer to this edition. They have been published in two volumes in English as: Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art, translated by T.M. You can read the Lectures on Fine Art on (or in German here). It’s worth being aware, by the way, that this work is sometimes known by the alternative title the Philosophy of Fine Art. These were not published by Hegel himself – they are the work of an editor – but with that caveat 1 they form one of philosophy’s most immense and systematic philosophies of art. These were later compiled from a (now lost) manuscript plus lecture notes by his students and published after his death as the Lectures on Fine Art ( Vorlesungen über die Ästhetik). The other, much more substantial source is a series of lectures Hegel gave between 1818-1829, first in Heidelberg then in Berlin. German speakers can read the original here. Translation from 1894 I think Michael Inwood’s revision is a great You can read the Philosophy of Mind excerpt on – the piece on art starts on p169. Hegel’s aesthetic theory can be found in two places.įirst there are paragraphs 556–63 of the 1830 edition of the Encyclopaedia of the Philosophical Sciences (in its third part, called The Philosophy of Mind, IIIA).
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