End-of-Art Philosophy in Hegel Nietzsche and Danto - Stephen Snyder Gebunden

This book examines the little understood end-of-art theses of Hegel Nietzsche and Danto. The end-of-art claim is often associated with the end of a certain standard of taste or skill. However at a deeper level it relates to a transformation in how we philosophically understand our relation to the 'world'. Hegel Nietzsche and Danto each strive philosophically to overcome Cartesian dualism redrawing the traditional lines between mind and matter. Hegel sees the overcoming of the material in the ideal Nietzsche levels the two worlds into one and Danto divides the world into representing a nd non-representing material. These attempts to overcome dualism necessitate notions of the self that differ significantly from traditional accounts the redrawn boundaries show that art and philosophy grasp essential but different aspects of human existence. Neither perspective however fully grasps the duality. The appearance of art's end occurs when one aspect is given priority: for Hegel and Danto it is the essentialist lens of philosophy and in Nietzsche's case the transformative power of artistic creativity. Thus the book makes the case that the end-of-art claim is avoided if a theory of art links the internal practice of artistic creation to all of art's historical forms.