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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Age of Figurative Theo-humanism
    sub title: The Beauty of God and Man in German Aesthetics of Painting and Sculpture (1754-1828)
  name:
    name part: Cirulli, Franco.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 191 p. 17 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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 with classical sculpture, chose painting as the medium more suited to the modern self’s exploration of transcendence. This paradigm-shift is traced in the aesthetic discourse of Friedrich Schlegel and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel. In this work, the widespread prejudice that such aesthetics initiated a so-called “Modern Grand Narrative of the Arts” is deconstructed. One accusation directed at 18th century aesthetics has been that it realised into “Art” what had previously been a living, rich tissue of meaning: this work shows how Figurative Theo humanism's attention to aesthetic values was never detached from deeper theological and humanistic considerations. Furthermore, it argues that this aesthetic discourse never forgot that it emerged from modern disenchantment—far from occluding the dimension of secularization, it draws poignant meaning from it. Anyone with an interest in the current debates about the scope and nature of aesthetics (philosophers of art, theology, or religion) will find this book of great interest and assistance.
  table of contents: Preface -- Introduction -- I. Winckelmann: The Responsibility of Aesthetic Response -- II. Hemsterhuis and Herder: Sculptural Theo-humanism -- III. Moritz, Wackenroder, Schelling: Tragic Theo-aesthetics -- IV. The Jena Circle and Hegel: The Modernity of Painting -- V. Conclusion.
  note: by Franco Cirulli.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Fine arts
  subject:
    topic: Aesthetics
  subject:
    topic: Religion
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Religion
  subject:
    topic: Aesthetics
  subject:
    topic: Fine Arts
  classification: BL51
  classification: 210
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life, 3
  identifier: 9783319100005
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10000-5
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    record creation date: 150511
    record change date: 20151031121030.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-10000-5