“Hegel, Danto and the End of Art”
Stephen Houlgate (University of Warwick)
We will discuss a paper by Professor Houlgate for this talk. Please contact Viren Murthy (vmurthy2@wisc.edu) or Daniel Spaulding (dmspaulding@wisc.edu) for the paper.
“Hegel’s idea of the ‘end of art’ has been a topic of ongoing discussion in the philosophy of art since his death in 1831. Two of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers, Heidegger and Adorno, both developed interpretations of art that engage directly with this idea. The person who appears to embrace the idea most enthusiastically, however, is Arthur Danto, who has even described himself as a ‘born-again Hegelian’. Yet how much impact has Hegel had on Danto’s philosophy of art and of the history of art?”
Cosponsored by University Lectures Fund, Department of History, Department of Art History, Borghesi Mellon Workshop for Hegel and Social Theory