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

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Olivier A. P.

Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

2022

vol. 32

issue Special Issue

15-35

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.

Deux Narcisse, miroirs des fins: essai d’interprétation hégélien

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Ébert-Zeminová C.

Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

2022

vol. 32

issue Special Issue

55-67

This paper attempts to cross-read the End of Art as it is conceptualized by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and André Gide’s and Jean Lorrain’s versions of the myth of Narcissus. The most relevant mythemes such as beauty, self-love, duplication, “specularity” and death are apprehended in their recovery by fin-de-siècle aesthetics. The hermeneutic back-and-forth movement between the two texts assesses the structural symbols carrying various models of the evolution of art and formulates what Hegel could have possibly understood by this concept. The results of our interpretation are then related to certain phenomena of the history of art, and particularly of literature in the 20th century.

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1 Olivier A. P.

1 Ébert-Zeminová C.

2 2022

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

Deux Narcisse, miroirs des fins: essai d’interprétation hégélien