Heinrich Gustav Hotho

Heinrich Gustav Hotho ( May 22nd 1802 in Berlin, † December 24, 1873 ) was a German philosopher and art historian and is known as the editor of Hegel's Aesthetics (1835 )

Life

Professor of aesthetics and art history in Berlin, director of the print collection of the Berlin Museum.

Philosophy

Hotho is counted among the Old Hegelians.

Works

  • Preliminary studies on the life and art (1835 )

The preliminary studies are clearly in the tradition of ' Art Confessions ', a genre that has created and Goethe in the field of music in the first place Wackenroder ( Barfoed 1967:384 ). Hotho here (according to the preface ) in matters of art viewing an emotionally -influenced approach and representation in preference to philosophical rigor.

As a first-person narrator in anonymous letters, as its editor, he acts, he explains how he strove to

In a romantic manner, the description of their own approach to the object to be examined is the method of scientific work, as well as the scientific motivation arises from the personal.

Hotho gets into his art viewing at once the difference between claim and reality. He holds the scientific thought as an enemy of art, and his claim is that,

A reconciliation of " poetry and prose [ ... ] at least on the part of poetry and science." Formal goal is a combination of presentation and critique.

Hotho as Hegel Publisher

Hothos name is still associated with the aesthetics of Hegel. Right after Hegel's death in 1831 a group of friends of the deceased himself had made to work, to publish his posthumous philosophical works. Hotho was entrusted with the aesthetics. From Hegel's own hand, it was only available notes. He worked them in the notes, which he had made as a student in the lectures of his teacher Hegel; he used to Transcripts other listeners of Hegel's lectures. This text editing Hothos appeared as Lectures on Aesthetics in three volumes in 1835, 1837 and 1838. It was first recorded by the scientific criticism about by Karl Rosenkranz, very cheap ( ZIEMER 1994 p. 257). Also buchhändlerisch the work was a success. Already in 1842 the publishing house Duncker & Humblot brought out a second edition, also recorded for Hotho as editor. It is undoubtedly Hothos merit that the lectures were one of the most readable and most successful books of Hegel; » Hotho did his work brilliantly, " judges still 1975, the British editor of aesthetics ( ZIEMER 1994 p. 259). In the critique of ideology matched Federal Republic but Hothos got in a bad light. The suspicion was loud, Hotho have "progressive" airbrushed elements in Hegel's lectures and aesthetics " conservative " made ​​as Hegel's view was actually. (For more details, as well as bibliographic information on this controversy in ZIEMER 1994 p. 259 and 348).

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