Stylistics. Rethinking the Artforms after Hegel

WINFIELD, Richard Dien

ISBN 10: 079142782X / ISBN 13: 9780791427828

Published by Statec University of New York Press, Albany, 1996

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141 p.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Stylistics. Rethinking the Artforms after Hegel
• Publisher: Statec University of New York Press, Albany
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 079142782X
• ISBN 13: 9780791427828
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: Good
• Book Type: Buch
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophie / Philosophy

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Synopsis

Presents a systematic theory of the artforms (symbolic, classical, and romantic), providing a way of addressing contemporary art and sketching a theory of the individual arts.

Winfield develops a systematic theory of the fundamental styles of art, addressing the most neglected area of aesthetics, without which neither cultural divides, artistic periods, nor the fate of art in modernity can be understood. Stylistics thoroughly critiques Hegel's analysis of symbolic, classical, and romantic art in order to conceive the basic modes of artistic style. In so doing, the book presents an alternative to the two most prevalent approaches in aesthetics: the metaphysical mimetic theory pioneered by Plato and Aristotle and the transcendental theory of aesthetic reception pioneered by Hume and Kant and followed by most contemporary theorists. Unlike these two approaches, Stylistics pays due heed to the individuality and unity of meaning and configuration basic to artistic phenomena, making possible a rigorous differentiation of particular forms of artistic style. Because the resulting analysis of style never loses sight of the self-understanding that art provides, Stylistics provides powerful tools for reinterpreting the cultural differences of antiquity and modernity and of East and West.

About the Author

Richard Dien Winfield is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Georgia. He is the author of Freedom and Modernity and Reason and Justice, both published by SUNY Press, and Systematic Aesthetics; Law in Civil Society; Overcoming Foundations: Studies in Systematic Philosophy; and The Just Economy.