Classic and Romantic German AestheticsJ. M. Bernstein This volume brings together major works by German thinkers, writing just prior to and after Kant, who were enormously influential in this crucial period of aesthetics. They include the first translation into English of Schiller's Kallias Letters and Moritz's On the Artistic Imitation of the Beautiful, and new translations of some of Hölderlin's most important theoretical writings and works by Hamann, Lessing, Novalis and Schlegel. The volume also offers an introduction in which J. M. Bernstein places the works in their historical and philosophical context. |
Contents
A Rhapsody in Cabbalistic Prose 1762 | 1 |
An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry 1766 | 25 |
From On the Artistic Imitation of the Beautiful 1788 | 131 |
Letters to Gottfried Korner 1793 | 145 |
1796 | 185 |
Letter to Hegel 26 January 1795 | 188 |
Being Judgement Possibility 1795 | 191 |
The Significance of Tragedy 1802 | 193 |
Dialogues 1798 | 216 |
On Goethe 1798 | 227 |
Studies in the Visual Arts 1799 | 235 |
From Critical Fragments 1797 | 239 |
From Athenaeum Fragments 1798 | 246 |
From Ideas 1800 | 261 |
On Goethes Meister 1798 | 269 |
Letter about the Novel 1799 | 287 |
Common terms and phrases
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