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Herta Nagl-Docekal,
Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert,
Erzsébet Rózsa,
Elisabeth Weisser-Lohmann
Volume 17 in this series
An often-overlooked thesis of Hegelian aesthetics is that artistic work is a locus for society’s process of self-understanding. Does this specification of location that Hegel formulated with regard to the art of his era still have relevance for today’s self-conceptions? What significance does his Aesthetics have for a theory of modernity? In this volume, renowned scholars explore these questions.