Romanticism and romantic art in Hegel's aesthetics

Abstract

The inquiry is guided by the question concerning the nature of the relation between Hegel's understanding of romantic form of art as the art of Christian world and his critique of the central aspects of poetics of German Romanticism - which was the spiritual movement that were led by Hegel's contemporaries. Following the comparison of Hegel's and Romanticists' consideration of the need of art and the overview of Hegel's characterization of romantic form of Ideal, the author of this paper tries to point out the possibility that according to Hegel the basis of poetics of German Romanticism, particularly the romantic theory of irony, could be understood as the Christian and as the non-christian simultaneously. These basis are Christian inasmuch as they radicalise consciousness of the limits of the form of art as such. They are insufficiently Christian because they generalize finitude of that form and do not permit the higher realization of the spirit.