Lydia Moland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colby College. She is the author of Hegel on Political Identity (Northwestern University Press, 2011) and the editor of All Too Human: Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Springer, 2018). She has published articles on Hegel's political and aesthetic philosophy, the playwright and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, and the American abolitionist Lydia Maria Child. She is the recipient of grants from the NEH, the ACLS, and the American Academy in Berlin.

The book is replete with interesting insights ... an excellent account for anybody who is interested in Hegel, art history, or intellectual history.

• Introduction Part I: Art and the IdeaChapter One: Truth and Beauty: Art as the Sensuous Appearance of the Idea Part II: The Particular Forms of ArtChapter Two: Symbolic Art: The Distant DivineChapter Three: Classical Art: The Embodied DivineChapter Four: Romantic Art: The Human DivineChapter Five: The Dissolution and Future of the Particular Arts Part III: The System of the Individual ArtsChapter Six: Externality as Symbol: ArchitectureChapter Seven: Individuality Embodied: SculptureChapter Eight: Subjectivity in Retreat: PaintingChapter Nine: The Sound of Feeling: MusicChapter Ten: The Language of Inner Imagination: PoetryChapter Eleven: Embodied Reconciliation: Poetic Subgenres and the End of the Individual Arts Conclusion

Lydia Moland is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Colby College. She is the author of Hegel on Political Identity (Northwestern University Press, 2011) and the editor of All Too Human: Laughter, Humor, and Comedy in Nineteenth-Century Philosophy (Springer, 2018). She has published articles on Hegel's political and aesthetic philosophy, the playwright and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, and the American abolitionist Lydia Maria Child. She is the recipient of grants from the NEH, the ACLS, and the American Academy in Berlin.

The book is replete with interesting insights ... an excellent account for anybody who is interested in Hegel, art history, or intellectual history.

• Introduction Part I: Art and the IdeaChapter One: Truth and Beauty: Art as the Sensuous Appearance of the Idea Part II: The Particular Forms of ArtChapter Two: Symbolic Art: The Distant DivineChapter Three: Classical Art: The Embodied DivineChapter Four: Romantic Art: The Human DivineChapter Five: The Dissolution and Future of the Particular Arts Part III: The System of the Individual ArtsChapter Six: Externality as Symbol: ArchitectureChapter Seven: Individuality Embodied: SculptureChapter Eight: Subjectivity in Retreat: PaintingChapter Nine: The Sound of Feeling: MusicChapter Ten: The Language of Inner Imagination: PoetryChapter Eleven: Embodied Reconciliation: Poetic Subgenres and the End of the Individual Arts Conclusion