The Impact of Idealism

The third volume in this unique set provides an account of German Idealism's impact on literature, the arts and aesthetics.

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.