Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Editor's acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Schopenhauer's metaphysics of appearance and Will in the philosophy of art
- PART I The work of art: Schopenhauer on the nature of artistic creation
- PART II The experience of beauty: Schopenhauer's theory of aesthetic encounter
- PART III Schopenhauer's enduring influence on the arts: idealism and romanticism
- Bibliography of selected sources on Schopenhauer's aesthetics
- Index
PART II - The experience of beauty: Schopenhauer's theory of aesthetic encounter
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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Editor's acknowledgments
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Schopenhauer's metaphysics of appearance and Will in the philosophy of art
- PART I The work of art: Schopenhauer on the nature of artistic creation
- PART II The experience of beauty: Schopenhauer's theory of aesthetic encounter
- PART III Schopenhauer's enduring influence on the arts: idealism and romanticism
- Bibliography of selected sources on Schopenhauer's aesthetics
- Index
Summary
To become a pure subject of knowing means to be quit of oneself; but since in most cases people cannot do this, they are, as a rule, incapable of that purely objective apprehension of things, which constitutes the gift of the artist.
Schopenhauer, “On the Metaphysics of the Beautiful” Parerga and Paralipomena- Type
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- Schopenhauer, Philosophy and the Arts , pp. 107 - 108Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996