Aesthetics and Literature

Introduction: idealism in aesthetics and literature Ian Cooper 1. The legacy of idealism and the rise of academic aesthetics Christoph Jamme 2. Hegel's philosophical theory of action: the concept of action in Hegel's practical philosophy and aesthetics Klaus Vieweg 3. Tragedy and the human image: German Idealism's legacy for theory and practice Allen Speight 4. Romanticism as literary idealism, or: a 200-year-old way of talking about literature Stefan Matuschek 5. Idealism in nineteenth-century German literature Ian Cooper 6. Idealism in nineteenth-century British and American literature Richard Eldridge 7. Elements of Schopenhauer's thought in Beckett Ulrich Pothast 8. German Idealism and the philosophy of music Roger Scruton 9. The music of German Idealism Andrew Bowie 10. 'Refiner of all human relations' - Karl Friedrich Schinkel as an idealist theorist Felix Saure 11. Influences of German Idealism on nineteenth-century architectural theory: Schelling and Leo von Klenze Petra Lohmann 12. 'Making a world': the impact of idealism on museum formation in mid-nineteenth-century Massachusetts Ivan Gaskell 13. Hegel, Danto and the 'end of art' Stephen Houlgate.