PHL 366 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Albert Camus, Existentialism, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
4 Dec 2018
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Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world. Rejects the world on account of what it lacks and in the name of what it sometimes is. Interpretations of hegel"s phenomenology claim that beauty will be lived and no longer imagined. Reality, entirely rational, will satisfy by itself every appetite. Art is determined by its period and expresses the privileged values of the ruling class. Art dedicated to the service of the revolution. Art seems to be the only rational activity: Transformation of history itself into absolute beauty. Artists describe the struggle of revolution and rebellion on an aesthetic level. In every rebellion is the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe. Rebellion is thus a fabricator of universes. Demands of rebellion are also aesthetic demands. Artist reconstructs the world to his plan. I believe more and more that god must not be judged on this earth.
