Hegel's Aesthetics

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

Hegel’s Aesthetics have been characterized as the most important work in aesthetic theory since Aristotle’s own work. It has even been said to be the founding document in the development of art history. The work consists of lectures that Hegel gave in the 1820’s in Berlin, and it expresses his mature views on the nature of art, the nature of truth, and art’s relation to religion and to cognitive disciplines such as philosophy. It also contains some of Hegel’s clearest and best worked out statements about the nature of mind (Geist) and its social constitution.