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On Kant’s “Aesthetic Judgment”

On Kant’s “Aesthetic Judgment”

The only thing that would be more ponderous and difficult than trudging through Kant’s prose in his Critique of Aesthetic Judgment would be attempting to put his aesthetic philosophy found within to the test. Kant delivers a paucity of practical examples to make his recondite and ostensibly inconsistent abstractions all the more difficult to assimilate. [...]

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Goethe’s <i>Faust</i>

Goethe’s Faust

Goethe’s Faust is a complex work of literature that is concerned with the place of humanity in the cosmos.

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Romantic Literature

Romantic Literature

No simple label can describe the Romantic Age, for if anything the artists of this era were individualists.

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The Sorrows of Young Werther

The Sorrows of Young Werther

Unhappy man! Aren’t you a fool? Aren’t you deceiving yourself? What sense is there in this raging endless passion?

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Some Notes on the Devil

Some Notes on the Devil

Lucifer means “light bringer” and many literary manifestations of the fallen archangel still fulfill that function.

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