Aesthetics and subjectivity from Kant to Nietzsche

Introduction: aesthetics and modernity aesthetics and post-modernity. Part 1 Modern philosophy and the emergence of aesthetic theory - Kant: self-consciousness, knowledge and freedom the unity of the subject the unification of nature the purpose of beauty the limits of beauty. Part 2 German idealism and early German Romanticism: the "new mythology" the romantic "new mythology". Part 3 Reflections on the subject - Fichte, Holderlin and Novalis. Part 4 Schelling - art as the "organ of philosophy": the development of consciousness the structure of the "system of transcendental idealism" the aesthetic absolute mythology, art and language mythology, language and being. Part 5 Hegel - the beginning of aesthetic theory and the end of art: the reflexive absolute music and the idea language, consciousness and being the idea as sensuous appearance the prose of the modern world aesthetics and non-identity. Part 6 Schleiermacher - aesthetics and hermeneutics: individuality immediate self-consciousness art as free production interpretation as art literature and the "musical". Part 7 Music, language and literature: language and music Hegel and music - the sayable and the unsayable the presence of music infinite reflection and music. Part 8 Nietzsche - the divorce of art and reason: Schopenhauer - the world as embodied music Marx, myth and art art, myth and music in "The Birth of Tragedy" myth, music and language the illusion of truth music and metaphysics aesthetics, interpretation and subjectivity. Appendix: the so-called "oldest system-programme of German idealism" (1796).