Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics, Paperback/G. W. F. Hegel

Christianity had compromised the immediacy of man's relationship with reality, and ironic detachment had alienated him from his deepest feelings. Hegel's " Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics " were delivered in Berlin in the 1820s, and stand as a passionately argued work that challenged the ability of art to respond to the modern world.