TY  - BOOK
AU  - Schaeffer,Jean-Marie
AU  - Danto,Arthur C.
AU  - Rendall,Steven
TI  - Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger 
T2  - New French Thought Series
SN  - 9780691259536
U1  - 111.850903 21//eng/20230216eng
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Aesthetics, Modern
KW  - Art
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Aesthetic Theory
KW  - Aestheticism
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Age of Enlightenment
KW  - Antinomy
KW  - Archetype
KW  - Art for art's sake
KW  - Arthur Schopenhauer
KW  - Avant-garde
KW  - Classicism
KW  - Concept
KW  - Consciousness
KW  - Critical philosophy
KW  - Culture industry
KW  - Determination
KW  - Explanatory model
KW  - Figurative art
KW  - Fine art
KW  - First principle
KW  - Genre
KW  - Historicism
KW  - Historicity
KW  - Historicization
KW  - Idealism
KW  - Idealization
KW  - Imagination
KW  - Intellectualization
KW  - Literariness
KW  - Literature
KW  - Martin Heidegger
KW  - Modern art
KW  - Modernity
KW  - Neoplatonism
KW  - Novalis
KW  - Objective idealism
KW  - Ontic
KW  - Ontology
KW  - Phenomenon
KW  - Philosopher
KW  - Poetry
KW  - Politique
KW  - Positivism
KW  - Postmodernism
KW  - Potentiality and actuality
KW  - Pre-established harmony
KW  - Precognition
KW  - Realism (arts)
KW  - Reality
KW  - Reason
KW  - Relativism
KW  - Religion
KW  - Romanticism
KW  - Scholasticism
KW  - Scientism
KW  - Secularization
KW  - Solipsism
KW  - Spinozism
KW  - Subjectivism
KW  - The Soul of the World
KW  - The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
KW  - Theodicy
KW  - Theory of Forms
KW  - Theory of art
KW  - Theory
KW  - Thought
KW  - Transcendental idealism
KW  - Truism
KW  - Volksgeist
KW  - Work of art
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword: The Speculative Philosophers of Art --; Introduction --; Part One: WHAT IS PHILOSOPHICAL AESTHETICS? --; CHAPTER 1. Kantian Prolegomena to an Analytic Aesthetics --; Part Two: THE SPECULATIVE THEORY OF ART --; CHAPTER 2. The Birth of the Speculative Theory of Art --; CHAPTER 3 The System of Art (Hegel) --; CHAPTER 4. Ecstatic Vision or Cosmic Fiction? --; CHAPTER 5. Art as the Thought of Being (Heidegger) --; CONCLUSION. What the Speculative Tradition Misunderstood --; Notes --; Index of Names --; Index of Concepts; restricted access
N2  - This is a sweeping and provocative work of aesthetic theory: a trenchant critique of the philosophy of art as it developed from the eighteenth century to the early twentieth century, combined with a carefully reasoned plea for a new and more flexible approach to art.Jean-Marie Schaeffer, one of France's leading aestheticians, explores the writings of Kant, Schlegel, Novalis, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger to show that these diverse thinkers shared a common approach to art, which he calls the ";speculative theory."; According to this theory, art offers a special kind of intuitive, quasi-mystical knowledge, radically different from the rational knowledge acquired by science. This view encouraged theorists to consider artistic geniuses the high-priests of humanity, creators of works that reveal the invisible essence of the world. Philosophers came to regard inexpressibility as the aim of art, refused to consider second-tier creations genuine art, and helped to create conditions in which the genius was expected to shock, puzzle, and mystify the public. Schaeffer shows that this speculative theory helped give birth to romanticism, modernism, and the avant-garde, and paved the way for an unfortunate divorce between art and enjoyment, between ";high art"; and popular art, and between artists and their public.Rejecting the speculative approach, Schaeffer concludes by defending a more tolerant theory of art that gives pleasure its due, includes popular art, tolerates less successful works, and accounts for personal tastes.";[A] remarkable work. [Schaeffer's] writing is governed by . the ideals of clarity and consequence, the ideas of logic, truth, and evidence. Schaeffer is so precise and unrelenting a philosophical critic that one wonders how some of the philosophies he anatomizes here can possibly survive the operation.";--From the foreword by Arthur C. Danto
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691259536?locatt=mode:legacy
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