Fins de l’art : la réception de Hegel dans la littérature française du XIXe siècle

• Authors: Olivier Alain Patrick

Title variants

EN

ENDS OF ART: HEGEL’S RECEPTION IN 19th-CENTURY FRENCH LITERATURE

• Languages of publication: FR

Abstracts

EN

In a period of global pandemic and confinement to our homes, the end of art is not only a philosophical hypothesis, it is a fact of society. We have experienced that modern societies, those that were able to make art an absolute at one point in their history, no longer need the arts, or the physical presence of artists and spectators, or have considered them inessential, and therefore contingent. Is this what G. W. F. Hegel prophesied with his thesis of the end of art? In this paper I aim to clarify this by referring to the sources of Hegel’s lectures and by examining the reception by nineteenth-century French writers. 1) First, I give a reminder of the different ways in which Hegel’s theme of the end of art can be interpreted. 2) Then, I give a second reminder concerning the reception of Hegel’s Aesthetics in France, with a focus on the translations. 3) Finally, I propose to study three writers who determine three ways of conceiving the appropriation of Hegel in the 19th century and of the theme of the end of art: Théophile Gautier, Charles Baudelaire and Gustave Flaubert.

Keywords

FR

Esthétique; littérature française; philosophie allemande; philosophie française; Fin de l’art; XIXe siècle; France; Allemagne; Charles Baudelaire; Victor Cousin; Gustave Flaubert; Théophile Gautier; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Heinrich Heine

EN

Aesthetics; French Literature; German Philosophy; French Philosophy; End of Art; 19th Century; France; Germany; Charles Baudelaire; Victor Cousin; Gustave Flaubert; Théophile Gautier; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Heinrich Heine

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Arts, Czech Republic
• Journal: Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 32
• Issue: Special Issue
• Pages: 15-35

Contributors

author

Olivier Alain Patrick

• Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique