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The Age of Figurative Theo-Humanism. The Beauty of God and Man in German Aesthetics of Painting and Sculpture (1754-1828).
Franco Cirulli
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Paperback. Series: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life. Num Pages: 209 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 14 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AF; HPN; HRAB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 332.
This is a comprehensive, integrated account of eighteenth and early nineteenth century German figurative aesthetics. The author focuses on the theologically-minded discourse on the visual arts that unfolded in Germany, circa 1754-1828, to critique the assumption that German romanticism and idealism pursued a formalist worship of beauty and of unbridled artistic autonomy. This book foregrounds what the author terms an “Aesthetics of Figurative Theo humanism”. It begins with the sculptural aesthetics of Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Gottfried Herder before moving on to Karl Philipp Moritz, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder and Friedrich Schelling. The reader will discover how this aesthetic tradition, after an initial obsession ... Read more
This is a comprehensive, integrated account of eighteenth and early nineteenth century German figurative aesthetics. The author focuses on the theologically-minded discourse on the visual arts that unfolded in Germany, circa 1754-1828, to critique the assumption that German romanticism and idealism pursued a formalist worship of beauty and of unbridled artistic autonomy. This book foregrounds what the author terms an “Aesthetics of Figurative Theo humanism”. It begins with the sculptural aesthetics of Johann Joachim Winckelmann and Gottfried Herder before moving on to Karl Philipp Moritz, Wilhelm Heinrich Wackenroder and Friedrich Schelling. The reader will discover how this aesthetic tradition, after an initial obsession ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
209
Condition
New
Series
Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life
Number of Pages
191
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319361369
SKU
V9783319361369
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About Franco Cirulli
Franco Cirulli is a scholar in Aesthetics and in 18th and 19th century philosophy. He is the author of published essays on German Idealism, and on the theology of painting. In 2006, Routledge has published his Hegel’s Critique of Essence – A Reading of the Wesenslogik, a monograph devoted to Hegel’s metaphysics of natural necessity vs. freedom. He is a ... Read more
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