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Work #248 · Late (Berlin lectures)

Lectures on Aesthetics

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
1820s (delivered as lectures); 1835-38 (compiled and published posthumously by H. G. Hotho) · German
Posthumous lectures in three volumes · German idealist philosophy of art

Art as the sensible manifestation of the Idea — Hegel's posthumous three-volume systematic philosophy of art

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Attribute Lectures on Aesthetics (Late (Berlin lectures))
Time · Extent Infinite
Time · Ontological Status Substantival
Time · Grain Continuous
Time · Freedom Deterministic
Time · Traversability Linear
Time · Dimensionality One
Time · Direction Uni-directional
Space · Extent Infinite
Space · Ontological Status Substantival
Space · Curvature Flat
Space · Dimensionality Three
Space · Locality Local
Matter · Extent Infinite
Matter · Ontological Status Substantival
Matter · Conservation Conserved
Matter · Dimensionality Three
Matter · Locality Local
Observer · Time Instance Single
Observer · Space Instance Single
Observer · Knowledge Extent Total
Observer · Knowledge Retainment Total
Observer · Physicality Embodied
Observer · Agency Active
Observer · Number Plural
Observer · Metaphysical Agency Cosmic-ordering
Observer · Moral Authority Reason
Observer · Theological Method
Energy · Extent Infinite
Energy · Ontological Status Substantival
Energy · Conservation Conserved
Energy · Dispersibility Irreversible
Information · Ontological Status Substantival
Information · Cosmic Conservation Conserved
Information · Personal Conservation Non-conserved
Information · Granularity Continuous

Dimension-by-Dimension Evidence

What each work's passages reveal about its stance on each of the six dimensions.

Time

Lectures on Aesthetics

Historical-cultural time as the medium of art's development through symbolic, classical, and romantic forms.

Space

Lectures on Aesthetics

The geographical-cultural space of the great art-historical civilisations.

Matter

Lectures on Aesthetics

The material substrate of art (stone, paint, sound, language) as the sensible medium of the Idea.

Observer

Lectures on Aesthetics

The aesthetic-philosophical observer — capable of grasping Spirit's manifestation in art across historical development.

Energy

Lectures on Aesthetics

The dialectical energies of art-historical development.

Information

Lectures on Aesthetics

The artistic-cultural inheritance preserved through historical works and philosophical analysis.

Internal Tensions

Where each work's argument pulls against itself.

Lectures on Aesthetics

The "death of art" thesis has been continuously debated — Arthur Danto's 1984 essay "The End of Art" rehabilitated Hegel's thesis in contemporary terms; subsequent art-philosophical work has engaged the thesis variously. The editorial history is itself complicated: Hotho's compilation may have systematised Hegel's lectures more than Hegel himself did, raising questions about textual authority.