Art as the Absolute —— Art's Relation to Metaphysics in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer

----- 绝对艺术：艺术与形而上学的关系：康德，菲希特，谢林，黑格尔和史波滕豪尔

ISBN: 9781501330551 出版年：2015 页码：214 Paul Gordon Bloomsbury Publishing

Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who followed after, including Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem of how one can “know” the absolute in non-conceptual, non-discursive terms.The idea of art's inherent relation to the absolute, first explicitly rendered by Kant, is examined in major works from 1790 to 1823. The first and last chapters, on Plato and Nietzsche respectively, deal with precursors and “post-cursors” of this idea. Gordon shows and seeks to reddress the lack of attention to this idea after Hegel, as well as in contemporary reassessments of this period. Art as the Absolute will be of interest to students and scholars studying aesthetics from both a literary and philosophical perspective.