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The following is an excerpt from my work, “Art as Sublime”, in which I attempt to reconceptualize an ancient idea. Its bold thesis is that, far from an aesthetic incident, the Sublime is art’s very ‘telos'. “Art as Sublime” was published in 2023 in the short volume, “Sublimism: An introduction”.
Hegel’s conception of selfhood is amorphous, and gleaning it from the pages of his dense and complex tome, The Phenomenology of Spirit, is no mean feat. However, the picture of Hegelian self which reveals itself to the reader patient enough to tease it out from the idealist Titan’s pages, is as intriguing and it is nuanced and complex.
Drawing to a certain extent upon Kant, but mostly upon observations from the introduction to Hegel’s Lectures on Fine Art, this paper sets out to explore fine art’s infinite purposiveness, firstly by contrasting it to form, then to fine art’s finite counterpart, and finally by integrating it with Hegel’s notion of ‘Spirit’ (Geist).
At the turn of the 19th century, a group of German philosophers would take changes in epistemology set in motion by Immanuel Kant, and lay them at the foundation of a bold new way of doing metaphysics. These were the so-called Idealists.
