Æsthetic mysticism in the opponents of idealism--A. Schopenhauer--Ideas as the object of art--Æsthetic catharsis--Signs of a better theory in Schopenhauer--J. F. Herbart--Pure Beauty and relations of form--Art as sum of content and form--Herbart and Kantian thought
Æsthetic of content and Æsthetic of form: meaning of the contrast--Friedrich Schleiermacher--Wrong judgements concerning him--Schleiermacher contrasted with his predecessors--Place assigned to Æsthetic in his Ethics--Æsthetic activity as immanent and individual--Artistic truth and intellectual truth--Difference of artistic consciousness from feeling and religion--Dreams and art: inspiration and deliberation--Art and the typical--Independence of art--Art and language--Schleiermacher's defects--Schleiermacher's services to Æsthetic
THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE: HUMBOLDT AND STEINTHAL
Progress of Linguistic--Linguistic speculation at the beginning of the nineteenth century--Wilhelm von Humboldt: relics of intellectualism--Language as activity: internal form--Language and art in Humboldt--II. Steinthal: the linguistic function independent of the logical--Identity of the problems of the origin and the nature of language--Steinthal's mistaken ideas on art: his failure to unite Linguistic and Æsthetic
Minor æstheticians in the metaphysical school--Krause, Trahndorff, Weisse and others--Fried. Theodor Vischer--Other tendencies--Theory of the Beautiful in nature, and that of the Modifications of Beauty--Development of the first theory: Herder--Schelling, Solger, Hegel--Schleiermacher--Alexander von Humboldt--Vischer's "Æsthetic Physics"--The theory of the Modifications of Beauty: from antiquity to the eighteenth century--Kant and the post-Kantians--Culmination of the development--Double form of the theory: the overcoming of the ugly: Solger, Weisse and others--Passage from abstract to concrete: Vischer--The "legend of Sir Purebeauty"
ÆSTHETIC IN FRANCE, ENGLAND AND ITALY DURING THE FIRST HALF OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
Æsthetic movement in France: Cousin, Jouffroy--English Æsthetic-- Italian Æsthetic--Rosmini and Gioberti--Italian Romantics. Dependence of art
F. de Sanctis: development of his thought--Influence of Hegelism--Unconscious criticism of Hegelism--Criticisms of German Æsthetic--Final rebellion against metaphysical Æsthetic--De Sanctis' own theory--The concept of form--De Sanctis as art-critic--De Sanctis as philosopher