"Sense Is This Wonderful Word..." Hegel and the Aesthetic

Nicola Ramazzotto, Elena Romagnoli, Alberto L. Siani (Herausgeber)

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252 Seiten

2026
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-74682-4 (ISBN)

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This edited volume aims to shed light on the presuppositions, developments and legacies of Hegel’s concept of sense from a variety of perspectives, with a focus on the definition(s) of the aesthetic. The complexity of “sense” allows different dimensions of Hegel’s concept of the aesthetic to emerge, also in relation to contemporary debates.

A quest for sense is often taken to be a, if not the, main task of philosophy. Still, the relationship between philosophy and sense remains a complicated one, as “sense” is both what is most immediate in perception and what is most abstract and distant from perceptual immediacy. Such apparent contradiction is directly taken on by Hegel. The present collection reunites explorations of Hegel’s conception of sense from multiple perspectives, unified by their common reference to the aesthetic dimension. In turn, the complexity of “sense” allows different aspects of Hegel's concept of the aesthetic to emerge, also in relation to contemporary debates.

Nicola Ramazzotto recently completed his Ph.D. in aesthetics at the University of Pisa. His research focuses on German idealism, phenomenology, and pragmatism. He edited L’estetica pragmatista in dialogo (Edizioni ETS, 2022) and Dewey’s Experience and Nature: A Critical Guide (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). Elena Romagnoli is Junior Assistant Professor of aesthetics in the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge at the University of Pisa. She has published monographs, translations and many articles. She coedited Gadamer on Art and Aesthetic Experience. Rethinking Hermeneutical Aesthetics Today (SUNY Press, 2025). Alberto L. Siani is Associate Professor of aesthetics in the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge at the University of Pisa. He is the author of Hegel and the Present of Art’s Past Character (Routledge, 2024) and Landscape Aesthetics: Toward an Engaged Ecology (Columbia University Press, 2024), among other publications.

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Nicola Ramazzotto, Elena Romagnoli and Alberto L. Siani

1 Absolute Spirit

Christian Krijnen

2 Sensation and Thing’s Finite Mode of Existence: How to Do Justice to the Real Externalities of Beings

Cinzia Ferrini

3 Hegel and the Truth of Art

Marina F. Bykova

4 The Sense of Representation: on the Role of Vorstellung in Hegel’s Aesthetics

Francesco Campana

5 Hegel’s Notion of Symbol: the Aesthetic Experience between System and Interpretation

Mario Farina

6 Aesthetic Variations: Hegel between Philosophy of Art and Callistics

Alberto L. Siani

7 The Forms of Art: Symbolic, Iconic (Sculpture), Functional (Music)

Bruno Haas

8 Hegel on Tragedy

Michael N. Forster

9 Hegel and the Sense of Poetry

Nicola Ramazzotto

10 Other Deaths of Art: on Some Antecedents of the Hegelian Thesis

Paolo D’Angelo

11 From Plasticity to Movement: Human Body in Hegel’s Aesthetics

Elena Romagnoli

12 Hegel und die Wahlverwandtschaften

Klaus Vieweg

13 Hegel and World-Historical Art: Miles Davis in Berlin, 29 October 1983

Kenneth R. Westphal

14 Die Galaxie des Hyperästhetischen bei Hegel

Francesca Iannelli

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Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.1.2026
Reihe/Serie	Critical Studies in German Idealism ; 40
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch; deutsch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	90-04-74682-X / 900474682X
ISBN-13	978-90-04-74682-4 / 9789004746824
Zustand	Neuware