Age of Figurative Theo-humanism

Franco Cirulli is a scholar in Aesthetics and in 18th and 19th century philosophy. He is the author of published essays on German Idealism, and on the theology of painting. In 2006, Routledge has published his Hegel’s Critique of Essence – A Reading of the Wesenslogik, a monograph devoted to Hegel’s metaphysics of natural necessity vs. freedom. He is a Lecturer in the Core Curriculum at Boston University.

• Preface.- Introduction.- I. Winckelmann: The Responsibility of Aesthetic Response.- II. Hemsterhuis and Herder: Sculptural Theo-humanism.- III. Moritz, Wackenroder, Schelling: Tragic Theo-aesthetics.- IV. The Jena Circle and Hegel: The Modernity of Painting.- V. Conclusion.