El esplendor de la idea: belleza y apariencia en Hegel

Abstract

The paper explores the concept of aesthetic appearance in Hegel. Hegel’s definition of beauty as “a sensible appearance of idea” not only implies the art world’s revaluing of aesthetics, but also an authentic synthesis between nature and spirit, concept and reality, subjective and objective. It is precisely this unity of aesthetics -and its contradiction- that Hegel conceives of.