Overview
- Explores the theological and humanist concerns that animate German philosophical discourse on sculpture and painting, circa 1754-1828
- Critiques the widespread assumption that German Romanticism and Idealism reduced the originally religious nature of figurative art to a formalist worship of beauty and of unbridled artistic autonomy
- Provides an historical framework for contemporary debates about the nature and future of aesthetics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life (BSPR, volume 3)
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Book Title: The Age of Figurative Theo-humanism
Book Subtitle: The Beauty of God and Man in German Aesthetics of Painting and Sculpture (1754-1828)
Authors: Franco Cirulli
Series Title: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10000-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-09999-6Published: 22 May 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36136-9Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-10000-5Published: 11 May 2015
Series ISSN: 2352-8206
Series E-ISSN: 2352-8214
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 191
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations, 14 illustrations in colour
Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Aesthetics, Fine Arts