A Comprehensive History of Western Aesthetics (Volume 4): German Classical Aesthetics

Author: Cao Junfeng
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Publish Date: 1999-11-01
Features: German classical aesthetics, as a dialectical and humanistic philosophical aesthetics, ultimately completed and perfected itself. It is a synthesis of various aesthetic trends since ancient Greece, particularly integrating the rationalist and empiricist schools of the Enlightenment in modern times. It developed and refined the categories, concepts, and theoretical systems of aesthetics, reflecting the historical evolution of aesthetics from "natural ontology" through "epistemology" to "humanistic ontology" (social ontology). German classical aesthetics, as a dialectical and humanistic philosophical aesthetics, ultimately completed and perfected itself. It is a synthesis of various aesthetic trends since ancient Greece, particularly integrating the rationalist and empiricist schools of the Enlightenment in modern times. It developed and refined the categories, concepts, and theoretical systems of aesthetics, reflecting the historical evolution of aesthetics from "natural ontology" through "epistemology" to "humanistic ontology" (social ontology).