Negative Sublimity: Hegel’s Description of Jewish Religion
Hegel discusses Jewish religion and its monotheistic concept of the divine in two contexts of his philosophy. On the one hand, he unfolds a theory of Hebrew poetry in his Lectures on Aesthetics. There he exposes the Hebrew concept of absolute meaning as a paradigmatic form of an aesthetic consciousn...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2023
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| In: |
The Being of Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy
Year: 2023, Pages: 439-452 |
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| Summary: | Hegel discusses Jewish religion and its monotheistic concept of the divine in two contexts of his philosophy. On the one hand, he unfolds a theory of Hebrew poetry in his Lectures on Aesthetics. There he exposes the Hebrew concept of absolute meaning as a paradigmatic form of an aesthetic consciousness of negative sublimity. The religious concept of the creator produces an art of sublimity which reflects the negative relation of absolute meaning and shape. The negative sublime is a consciousness of the incommensurability of absolute content and finite form. On the other hand, this concept of negative sublimity is used in Hegel’s famous Lectures on the Philosophy of Religion to describe the structure of Jewish monotheism. The aesthetic category of the negative sublime has a specific function in the context of Hegel’s periodization of the history of religion. Absolute meaning is described as pure or abstract subjectivity. The creator is incommensurable to all sensuous form. Sublime art and religion of sublimity converge in their structure of negativity. Therefore, negative sublimity is a paradigm for the connection of both cultural spheres in Hegel’s philosophy of spirit. |
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| ISBN: | 3031138627 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The Being of Negation in Post-Kantian Philosophy
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13862-1_25 |