The End of Art: Readings in a Rumor after Hegel

Eva Geulen

Published by Stanford University Press 2006

The End of Art

Readings in a Rumor after Hegel

Eva Geulen

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503619937

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Since Hegel, the idea of an end of art has become a staple of aesthetic theory. This book analyzes its role and its rhetoric in Hegel, Nietzsche, Benjamin, Adorno, and Heidegger in order to account for the topic's enduring persistence. In addition to providing a general overview of the main thinkers of post-Idealist German aesthetics, the book explores the relationship between tradition and modernity. For despite the differences that distinguish one philosopher's end of art from another's, all authors treated here turn the end of art into an occasion to thematize and to reflect on the very thing that modernism cannot or should not be: tradition. As a discourse, the end of art is one of our modern traditions.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
1. The End in the Meantime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Hegel Without End Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3. Nietzsche’s Retrograde Motion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
4. Counterplay: Benjamin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
5. Afterthought: Adorno Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	90
6. The Same End and the Other Beginning: Heidegger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
7. Epilogue: “That Mysterious Yearning Toward the Chasm” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	140
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Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199

Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
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- Main content: 216

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Published: September 11, 2006
ISBN: 9781503619937