Aesthetics. Summer semester of 1828/29 G.W.F. Hegel, author

Abstract

Hegel’s Philosophy of Art or Aesthetics exists, in its developed form, in diverse class manuscripts from students, taken directly during the lecture, or edited afterwards; Hegels lectures on Aesthetics from 1828/29 have been conserved from the notes from Karol Libelt, and transcripted and published at the beginning of the 21st century. The usual subjects of Hegel’s Aesthetics are in the introduction to these lectures, namely, the consideration of the spiritual content of art, the relationship between nature and spirit, the spiritual and metaphysical sides of the beautiful, the discussion on the possible objections to a science of art, and the consideration of the history of art and its types (architecture, sculpture, etc.). We present here a Spanish translation of the introduction to the lectures on Aesthetics from 1828/29; this document is especially attractive for being the last presented by Hegel himself, and for including new elements on the notion of the satisfaction of subjective needs (“If I am satisfied, I do not suffer if I have dishes before me.”); in the end, Hegel’s Aesthetics intend to show the need for art as part of the self-development and selfrealization of human consciousness.