Introduction 1. The Anthropological Roots of Beauty 2. Hegel on Beauty, Nature and Art: Towards a Novel Interpretation 3. The Value of Beauty, Aesthetic Experience and the Aesthetic Human Ideal 4. The Beautiful Character and its Limits 5. Beyond Beauty: The Pain of Inner Division 6. Modern Beauty
Biography
Julia Peters is Assistant Professor in Philosophy at the University of Tuebingen, Germany. She specializes in Kant and German Idealism and has published a number of articles on Hegel’s Aesthetics, Anthropology and Philosophy of Mind. In addition she works on contemporary virtue ethics.
"Julia Peters' intelligent and interesting book … adds a vital new dimension to the debate." -- Andrew Bowie, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"Peters’s interpretation is presented with great clarity and care and admirably combines the virtues of comprehensiveness and concision. In her efforts to unearth the key elements of the Hegelian definition of beauty and open new avenues for assessing beauty’s relevance for art, she has made a significant contribution to the discussion." -- Brent Kalar, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
