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The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1

by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770–1831)

24 chapters, about 111,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

1. TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE 2,400 words
2. II. The Action 500 words
3. I 5,900 words
4. II 3,300 words
5. III 12,200 words
6. IV 5,400 words
7. V[133] 8,200 words
8. THE IDEA OF FINE ART, OR THE IDEAL 6,700 words
9. I 3,300 words
10. A. THE BEAUTY OF NATURE AS SUCH 4,000 words
11. 1. THE BEAUTY OF ABSTRACT FORM 3,000 words
12. C. DEFECTIVE ASPECTS OF THE BEAUTY OF NATURE 3,200 words
13. A. THE IDEAL SIMPLY, OR AS SUCH 8,200 words
14. B. THE DETERMINACY OF THE IDEAL 200 words
15. I. THE IDEAL DEFINITION AS SUCH 1,100 words
16. II. THE ACTION 500 words
17. 1. THE GENERAL WORLD-CONDITION 6,200 words
18. 2. THE SITUATION 7,300 words
19. 3. THE ACTION 8,900 words
20. III. THE EXTERNAL DETERMINATION OF THE IDEAL 15,800 words
21. C. THE ARTIST 400 words
22. 1. IMAGINATION, GENIUS, AND INSPIRATION 2,400 words
23. 2. THE OBJECTIVE CHARACTER OF THE REPRESENTATION 200 words
24. 3. MANNER, STYLE, AND ORIGINALITY 2,100 words

Ideas discussed in this book

• Antigone
• Architecture
• Artist
• Beauty
• Bodhisattva
• Hamlet
• Hero
• Humour
• Hypostasis (philosophy and religion)
• Juliet
• Personal god
• Romeo
• Style (visual arts)
• Sublime (philosophy)
• Vitality

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