Questions to Answer

: Answer the following questions (each answer should be about 80-100 words)

1. What distinguishes Kant’s “critical” approach to aesthetics and art from the “metaphysical” ones of Schelling, Hegel, or Nietzsche?
2. Explain the different between an “artistic” culture and an “aesthetic” one and how that applies to the modern (post-Enlightenment, democratic) age.
3. Explain the idea of “absolute Art” as it crystallizes in Schelling, Hegel, or Nietzsche (any one of them is enough).

(Art with a capital A refers to the idea of absolute Art throughout these prompts.)

4. How does modern aesthetics from Kant on reflect ancient tensions of iconophilia and iconoclasm, and of art as imitation and as communication with the beyond, the dead, the invisible, the transcendent?

Sample Solution