Hegel on the Modern Arts

Debates over the ''end of art'' have tended to obscure Hegel''s work on the arts themselves. Benjamin Rutter opens this study with a defence of art''s indispensability to Hegel''s conception of modernity; he then seeks to reorient discussion toward the distinctive values of painting, poetry, and the novel. Working carefully through Hegel''s four lecture series on aesthetics, he identifies the expr...