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Modern Aesthetics

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Heidegger on Art and Art Works

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The next development in the history of knowledge about the arts which Heidegger discusses in his “Six Basic Developments in the History of Aesthetics” coincides with the formation of modern aesthetics. This development again did not originate immediately from art and from reflections on art. Rather it involves our entire modern history and coincides with the beginning of the modern age.

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  1. N, I, 98–100. Cf. Wilhelm Dilthey, “Die drei Epochen der modernen Ästhetik und ihre heutige Aufgabe” (1892), in Gesammelte Schriften, Vol. VI (Leipzig: Teubner, 1924), pp. 242–287; Rudolf A. Makkreel, Dilthey: Philosopher of the Human Studies (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975), pp. 81–88.

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  5. Ibid., p. 253.

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  6. In 1618 Descartes completed a theoretical treatise on music in which one can find a brief description of the basic principles of such a rationalist aesthetics. Cf. R. Descartes, Compendium Musicae, in Oeuvres, ed. by Charles Adam and Paul Tannery, Vol. X (Paris: Cerf, 1908), pp. 89–141; cf. Wilhelm Dilthey, loc. cit., p. 249.

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Kockelmans, J.J. (1985). Modern Aesthetics. In: Heidegger on Art and Art Works. Phaenomenologica, vol 99. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5067-2_2

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