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Jul 2023
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Ep. 321: August Schlegel on Beauty (Part...

Mark Linsenmayer, Wes Alwan, Seth Paskin, Dylan Casey
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Covering the elder Schlegel  brother's Theory of Art (ca. 1800). How does our experience of Beauty relate to the infinite? Schlegel provides a Romantic response to Kant on knowing the divine, inner essences of things through art, how genius works, and the relationship between art and nature.

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