Empire jako styl późny w perspektywie myśli filozoficznej Georga Wilhelma Friedricha Hegla
Empire as the Late Style in the Philosophical Perspective of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Author(s): Sławomir Kaczor
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Summary/Abstract: The 19th century has been characterised as an extremely tumultuous period in the history of Europe. The rise of Napoleon at the turn of the century and his wide-ranging activity in numerous spheres of life, including the world of culture, had to and ultimately did find its reflection in many polemical and scholarly works, including various philosophers,such as Napoleon’s contemporary, G.W.F. Hegel. His interest in the multifaceted natureof the historical events found its reflection in, among others, Lectures on Aesthetics. Thetreatise constitutes an excellent source material concerning the changes in arts in the lateperiod of the classical era, often referred to as Empire. Hegel himself does not name thestyle explicitly, and he mentions Bonaparte by name only three times, yet the analysis ofthe work in question in the context of the entire epoch as well as Hegel’s personal attitudetowards its creator allow to accurately indicate the features which testify to the “lateness”of Empire.

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