Index

- absolute, the
- abstract art
- Adorno, Theodor W.
- - Against Epistemology
  - ‘The Aging of New Music’
  - ‘Criteria of New Music’
  - Dialectic of Enlightenment
  - ‘The Essay as Form’
  - In Search of Wagner
  - ‘On the Fetish-Character of Music and the Regression of Listening’
  - Philosophy of New Music
  - Prisms
  - ‘Questions of Contemporary Opera Theatre’
- aesthetic attitude
- aesthetic categories
- aesthetic contingency
- aesthetic education
- aesthetic enjoyment
- aesthetic experience
- aesthetic insight, poles of
- aesthetic intelligence
- aesthetic logic
- aesthetic method
- aesthetic relativism
- aesthetic research
- aesthetic semblance, sphere of
- aesthetic stupidity
- aesthetic subjectivism
- aesthetic theory
- - as constituent element in art
  - defining concept of
  - justification for
  - lack of continuous tradition
  - lags behind developments in art
  - methodology
  - not instruction for understanding art
  - poles of insight
  - and research
  - resistance against
  - situation of
  - and sociology
  - without the concept of beauty
- Aesthetics (Hegel)
- Aesthetics of Ugliness (Rosenkranz)
- Against Epistemology (Adorno)
- ‘Aging of New Music, The’ (Adorno)
- aleatory music
- alienation
- Altenberg, Peter
- ambiguity
- America
- ‘Analytic of the Sublime’ (Kant)
- annihilation of the subject
- Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare)
- architecture
- Aristotle
- art
- - and the absolute
  - abstract
  - aesthetic experience of
  - and aesthetic intelligence
  - and aesthetic subjectivism
  - aesthetic theory as constituent element
  - and alienation
  - ambiguity of
  - and annihilation of the subject
  - atmosphere of
  - as being
  - childlike qualities of
  - and co-enactment
  - and consonance
  - and construction see construction
  - and consumption of prestige
  - contemporary see modern art
  - content see content
  - and control of nature
  - cultural setting of
  - decorative
  - and defamiliarization
  - and desire
  - and disinterested pleasure
  - and dissonance
  - elevation through
  - emotional relationship with
  - and empathy
  - enjoyment of
  - and expert authority
  - and expression see expression
  - and fetishism
  - as a force field
  - form see form
  - French
  - and games
  - and homeostasis
  - and the idea
  - and intuitiveness
  - irrationality of
  - and loss of tension
  - and manners
  - and meaning
  - mediated by nature
  - and mimetic behaviour
  - modern see modern art
  - and moments of breakthrough
  - and naturalism
  - and nature
  - not purely sensual
  - as objectified spirit
  - and objectivity
  - in opposition to society
  - origins of
  - popular
  - and practice
  - prehistory of
  - production of
  - and progress
  - and psychology
  - and randomness
  - recognition of
  - and reference to reality
  - and reflection
  - relationship between individual elements and the whole
  - relationship to beauty
  - riddle character of
  - and semblance
  - and semi-literacy
  - and sensual pleasure
  - separation from reality
  - and socialization
  - spiritualization of
  - and standards
  - as stimulus
  - and structural context
  - and the sublime
  - and synthesis
  - and taste
  - and technique
  - tension between the sensual and the spiritual
  - as a totality
  - and truth
  - and ugliness
  - understanding of
  - as unfolding of truth
  - and unity
  - and utopia
  - as voice of the suppressed
  - and world feeling
  - as the ‘world once again’
- artistic production
- artistic beauty
- - and aesthetic subjectivism
  - and desire
  - and disinterested pleasure
  - and dissonance
  - Hegel on
  - Kant on
  - mediated by nature
  - and natural beauty
  - relationship between art and beauty
  - and taste
  - see also beauty
- artists
- - and aesthetic insight
  - and artistic production
  - as creators
  - empathy with
  - intentions of
  - psychology of
  - subjectivity of
- Asian Banise, The (Ziegler)
- Assumption of Hannele (Hauptmann)
- atmosphere
- attunement
- aura
- automatic writing
- awareness

- Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Balzac, Honoré de
- Batteux, Charles
- Baudelaire, Charles
- Baumgarten, Alexander Gottlieb
- beauty
- - and aesthetic subjectivism
  - aesthetics without
  - artistic see artistic beauty
  - classicist definition of
  - and death
  - and desire
  - as disinterested pleasure
  - explained in terms of its effect
  - Hegel's definition
  - holistic approach to
  - and initiated status
  - as internally in motion
  - as intuitive
  - Kant's definition
  - as kind of being
  - and madness
  - as manifestation of utopia
  - and mimetic behaviour
  - natural see natural beauty
  - and objectivity
  - and pain
  - paradoxical nature of
  - Plato on
  - relationship to art
  - and semblance
  - as sensual appearance of the idea
  - as similarity
  - and sublimation
  - and the sublime
  - and taste
  - as tension between pleasure and displeasure
  - as tension between the spiritual and sensual
  - and truth
  - and ugliness
  - and unity
- Beckett, Samuel
- Beethoven, Ludwig van
- being, art as
- Bellini, Giovanni
- Benjamin, Walter
- Berg, Alban
- biographical novels
- body see human body
- Boulez, Pierre
- Braque, Georges
- Brave New World (Huxley)
- breakthrough, moments of
- Brecht, Bertolt
- Brunswik, Egon

- Cage, John
- Camus, Albert
- Cantril, Hadley
- cardinal virtues
- Catholicism
- Cézanne, Paul
- characters
- childhood experiences
- Chinese music
- cinema
- civilizational principle
- classical sculpture
- classicism
- co-enactment
- coherence
- collages
- collectivism
- colour symbolism
- commentary
- commercialism
- conceptless synthesis
- Concerning the Spiritual in Art (Kandinsky)
- consciousness, regressions of
- consonance
- construction
- - as an absolute
  - and expressionism
  - and form
  - imposed from the outside
  - limits of
  - and meaning
  - in modern art
  - in music
  - and randomness
  - in reality
  - relation to expression
  - and the spiritualization of art
  - and subjectivity
- constructivism
- contemporary art see modern art
- content
- - aesthetics of
  - and intentions
  - and intuitiveness
  - and language
  - as relation of synthesis of aspects to reality
  - relation to form
  - sedimented content
  - spiritual content
  - sublimation of
  - as transcendence of sensual aspects
  - unfolding of
- convention
- creators, artists as
- ‘Criteria of New Music’ (Adorno)
- critique
- ‘Critique of Aesthetic Judgement’ (Kant)
- Critique of Practical Reason (Kant)
- Critique of Pure Reason (Kant)
- Critique of the Power of Judgement (Kant)
- Croce, Benedetto
- cubism
- cultivatedness
- cultural setting

- Dada
- death, and beauty
- decorative art
- defamiliarization
- de-mythologization
- depth psychology
- desire
- destruction
- determinate negation
- Dialectic of Enlightenment (Horkheimer & Adorno)
- dialectic of loneliness
- dialectical materialism (diamat)
- differentiation
- Dilthey, Wilhelm
- disinterested pleasure
- dissonance
- Doctor Faustus (Mann)
- drama

- Eimert, Hubert
- Elements of Criticism (Home)
- elevation
- - self-elevation
  - through art
- elusiveness
- emotional relationship with art
- empathy
- enjoyment of art
- enlightenment
- enthusiasm
- epistemology
- Ernst, Max
- ‘Eroica’ symphony (Beethoven)
- ‘Essay as Form, The’ (Adorno)
- Eulenberg, Herbert
- existentialism
- exoticism
- expert authority
- expression
- - and art as voice of the suppressed
  - aversion to
  - and convention
  - and differentiation
  - and expressionism
  - and horror
  - immediacy of
  - and language
  - in modern art
  - relationship to construction
  - and restoration of nature
  - as result of historical process
  - of suffering
  - and truth
- expressionism

- fashion
- Faust (Goethe)
- fear
- fetishism
- film see cinema
- Finnegans Wake (Joyce)
- Flaubert, Gustave
- Florian Geyer (Hauptmann)
- Flowers of Evil, The (Baudelaire)
- Fontane, Theodor
- force field, art as
- form
- - aesthetics of
  - and construction
  - and natural beauty
  - relation to content
  - as sedimented content
- Forms, Plato's theory of
- foundation mania
- France, Anatole
- freedom to the object
- French art
- Frenzel, Ivo
- Freud, Sigmund
- Friedländer, Ludwig
- functionalism

- games
- Geiger, Moritz
- genius, cult of
- George, Stefan
- Georgiades, Thrasyboulos
- German classicism
- German Enlightenment
- German Idealism
- Gesamtkunstwerk
- gestalt psychology
- Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
- Gottsched, Johann Christoph
- Greek sculpture
- Greek tragedy
- Greene, Graham
- Gris, Juan
- Groos, Karl
- Grünewald, Matthias

- Halm, August (Otto)
- Hals, Frans
- Harburger, Walter
- harmony
- Hauer, Joseph Matthias
- Hauptmann, Gerhart
- Hebbel, Friedrich
- Hebel, Johann Peter
- hedonism
- Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich
- - and aesthetic method
  - Aesthetics
  - art as unfolding of truth
  - on artistic beauty
  - and classicism
  - critique of foundation mania
  - decline of Hegelian philosophy
  - definition of beauty
  - denies progress in art
  - on descriptions of aesthetic experience
  - and freedom to the object
  - and human dignity
  - and materiality
  - on meaning and art
  - on natural beauty
  - objective idealism
  - on philosophy and sociology
  - response to criticism of difficulty
  - on the sensual and spiritual in art
  - similarity of his philosophy to approach to art
  - on taste
  - on ugliness
- Heidegger, Martin
- Heisenberg, Werner
- Heym, Georg
- Hildebrand, Adolf von
- Hindemith, Paul
- Hölderlin, Friedrich
- Holocaust
- Home, Henry
- homeostasis
- Homer
- Horkheimer, Max
- horror
- human body
- human dignity
- Huxley, Aldous

- Ibsen, Henrik
- idea
- - and art
  - beauty as sensual appearance of
  - and natural beauty
  - sensual intuitiveness of
- ideology
- Iliad (Homer)
- imitation see mimetic behaviour
- immediacy
- - of desire
  - of expression
  - of intuition
  - restoration of
  - sensual
  - of subjective response
- impressionism
- In Search of Wagner (Adorno)
- Indian Summer (Stifter)
- individuality
- infinity
- intentions
- - of artists
  - and content
- Introduction to the Fine Arts (Ramler)
- intuitiveness
- - and art
  - and beauty
- irrationality

- Jacobsen, Jens Peter
- jazz
- Jochmann, Carl Gustav
- Joyce, James
- Jugendstil
- Jupiter Symphony (Mozart)

- Kafka, Franz
- Kahnweiler, Daniel-Henry
- Kandinsky, Wassily
- Kant, Immanuel
- - and aesthetic subjectivism
  - ‘Analytic of the Sublime’
  - on artistic beauty
  - on coercive nature of laws
  - ‘Critique of Aesthetic Judgement’
  - Critique of Practical Reason
  - Critique of Pure Reason
  - Critique of the Power of Judgement
  - definition of beauty
  - and disinterested pleasure
  - evaluation of his aesthetic theory
  - extension of ideas beyond own knowledge
  - genius of
  - on judgement
  - and human dignity
  - on natural beauty
  - on the sublime
  - on taste
  - transcendental aesthetics
  - transcendental subjectivism
  - use of language
  - use of term ‘aesthetics’
- Kierkegaard, Søren
- kitsch
- Klee, Paul
- Kollwitz, Käthe
- Kommerell, Max
- Kreutzer Sonata, The (Tolstoy)

- Laforgue, René
- language
- - attempts to eliminate from expression
  - Flaubert's use of
  - Kant's use of
  - knowledge of languages
  - as location of content
  - and naturalism
- Laocoon (Lessing)
- Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm
- leisure, and work
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim
- literature see drama; novels; poetry
- loneliness, dialectic of
- Lorenz, Alfred
- love
- Ludwig, Emil
- Lukács, György
- Lulu (Berg)
- Luther, Martin

- Madame Bovary (Flaubert)
- madness
- magic
- Magic Mountain, The (Mann)
- Mahler, Gustav
- majority opinion
- Malle Babbe (Hals)
- Manet, Edouard
- Mann, Klaus
- Mann, Thomas
- manners
- Marriage of Figaro (Mozart)
- Marx, Karl
- mass culture
- Mautz, Kurt
- meaning
- - and art
  - and construction
  - crisis of
  - and reality
  - of the whole
- Meaning of Contemporary Realism (Lukács)
- megalomania
- Meistersinger, Die (Wagner)
- Melichar, Alois
- memory
- Mendelssohn, Moses
- metaphysicality see spirituality
- method
- Meyer, Theodor
- Meyerhold, Vsevolod
- mimetic behaviour
- - and art
  - and beauty
  - and games
  - as taboo
  - and truth
- Miró, Joan
- Missa Solemnis (Beethoven)
- modern art
- - abstract
  - and aversion to sensual beauty
  - and construction
  - and convention
  - and dissonance
  - elimination of linguistic elements
  - and expression
  - and formulation of characters
  - and homeostasis
  - and intuitiveness
  - loss of tension in
  - and meaning
  - and naturalism
  - in opposition to society
  - and randomness
  - relationship to traditional art
  - resistance to
  - and sensual pleasure
  - and spiritualization
  - theoretical preconditions
  - understanding of
  - and unity
- modern music
- Monet, Claude
- montages
- mood
- Mörike, Eduard
- Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
- music
- - and aesthetic intelligence
  - Chinese
  - and construction
  - and consumption of prestige
  - and dissonance
  - elimination of linguistic elements
  - and expert authority
  - expressionist
  - and homeostasis
  - and intuitiveness
  - jazz
  - modern
  - and progress
  - and randomness
  - relationship of individual elements to the whole
  - and sensual pleasure
  - and socialization
  - and talent
  - and technique
  - understanding of
  - as the ‘world once again’

- naïveté
- natural beauty
- - and artistic beauty
  - Benjamin on
  - and desire
  - and disinterested pleasure
  - and dissonance
  - elusiveness of
  - formalist approaches
  - Hegel on
  - and history
  - and infinity
  - Kant on
  - mediation of
  - model character of
  - and power dynamics
  - and resistance
  - and the sublime
  - as subordinate
  - see also beauty
- natural truth
- naturalism; see also realism
- nature
- - and art
  - and beauty see natural beauty
  - control of
  - and history
  - and infinity
  - and power
  - and resistance
  - restored through expression
- Nero complex
- New Objectivity
- Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Novalis
- novels

- objective idealism
- objectivity
- Odyssey (Homer)
- ‘On Naïve and Sentimental Poetry’ (Schiller)
- ‘On the Fetish-Character of Music and the Regression of Listening’ (Adorno)
- origins of art
- ornament

- pain; see also suffering
- Parsifal (Wagner)
- Pathétique symphony (Tchaikovsky)
- perception
- perspective
- Phaedo (Plato)
- Phaedrus (Plato)
- philosophical aesthetics see aesthetic theory
- philosophical representation
- Philosophy of Art (Schelling)
- Philosophy of New Music (Adorno)
- Picasso, Pablo
- Plato
- - and aesthetic subjectivism
  - on beauty
  - cardinal virtues
  - definitions
  - on enthusiasm
  - hierarchy of senses
  - on love
  - on madness
  - and ontology
  - Phaedo
  - Phaedrus
  - on reason
  - and representation
  - Republic
  - Symposium
  - theory of Forms
- play
- Plessner, Helmuth
- Poetics (Aristotle)
- poetry
- Poetry and Experience (Dilthey)
- pointillism
- popular art
- popular music
- positivism
- practice, and art
- prehistory of art
- Prelude in C sharp minor (Rachmaninov)
- prestige, consumption of
- principium individuationis, suspension of
- principium stilisationis
- Prisms (Adorno)
- progress
- projection
- property
- proportion
- Proust, Marcel
- pseudo-realism
- psychoanalysis
- psychology
- - and art
  - of the artist
  - depth psychology
  - gestalt psychology
  - Nero complex
  - projection
  - psychological truth
  - stimulus and response theory

- ‘Questions of Contemporary Opera Theatre’ (Adorno)

- Rachmaninov, Sergei
- Ramler, Karl Wilhelm
- randomness
- Raphael
- rationality
- realism; see also naturalism
- reality
- - and alienation
  - art as referring to
  - art as separated from
  - and construction
  - and crisis of meaning
  - and games
  - relationship to synthesis of a work's aspects
- reality principle
- recognition of art
- refinement
- reflection
- regressions of consciousness
- Republic (Plato)
- resistance
- riddle character of art
- Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Rimbaud, Arthur
- Der Ring (Wagner)
- Roman Empire
- Romanticism
- Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare)
- Rosenkranz, Karl
- Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
- Russia; see also Soviet Union

- Sade, Marquis de
- sadism
- Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Schelling, Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph
- Schiller, Friedrich
- Schoenberg, Arnold
- Schopenhauer, Arthur
- sculpture
- Sedlmayr, Hans
- self-elevation
- self-preservation
- semblance
- semi-literacy
- senses, hierarchy of
- sensuality
- - art not purely sensual
  - associated with southern art
  - aversion to sensual beauty in art
  - beauty as sensual appearance of the idea
  - content as transcendence of sensual aspects
  - historical change in sensual pleasure
  - relation of individual sensual stimuli to the whole
  - scattered nature of sensual stimuli
  - sensual immediacy
  - sensual intuitiveness
  - sensual pleasure
  - tension with the spiritual
- Sentimental Education (Flaubert)
- sexuality
- Shakespeare, William
- similarity, beauty as
- socialism
- socialization
- society, art in opposition to
- Socrates
- Sophism
- Soviet Union; see also Russia
- Spaeth, Sigmund
- Spartans
- spirituality
- - associated with northern art
  - and ideology
  - and natural beauty
  - objectified spirit
  - spiritual content
  - spiritualization of art
  - tension with the sensual
- Stadler, Ernst
- standards of art
- Sterzinger, Othmar
- Stifter, Adalbert
- stimulus and response
- Stockhausen, Karlheinz
- structural context
- Sturm und Drang
- Stylistic Law of Poetry (Meyer)
- subject, annihilation of
- subjectivism see aesthetic subjectivism; transcendental subjectivism
- sublimation
- sublime, the
- suffering; see also pain
- suppressed, art as voice of
- surrealism
- symbolism
- symmetry
- Symposium (Plato)
- syncretism
- synthesis
- synthetic cubism

- Tachisme
- talent
- Tapestry of Life, The (George)
- taste
- Tchaikovsky, Pyotr Ilyich
- technique
- The Tempest (Shakespeare)
- tension, loss of
- Third Reich
- Thoma, Hans
- Tolstoy, Leo
- Toscanini, Arturo
- traditional art
- tragedy
- Trakl, Georg
- transcendence
- transcendental aesthetics
- transcendental subjectivism
- truth
- - and art
  - art as unfolding of
  - and beauty
  - of expression
  - and ideology
  - natural truth
  - psychological truth
  - restoration of
  - and rightness
- tuition

- ugliness
- uncanny
- uncertainty principle
- unconscious
- understanding of art
- unity
- - and art
  - and beauty
- Usener, Karl Hermann
- utopia

- Valéry, Paul
- Vasari, Giorgio
- Verlaine, Paul
- Volkelt, Johannes

- Wagner, Richard
- war
- The Weavers (Hauptmann)
- Webern, Anton von
- Wedekind, Frank
- Wellek, Albert
- Werfel, Franz
- whole, relation of individual elements to
- Wilde, Oscar
- Wolff, Christian
- women, bourgeois construction of
- work, and leisure
- ‘Work of Art in the Age of its Technical Reproducibility, The’ (Benjamin)
- World as Will and Representation, The (Schopenhauer)
- world feeling
- ‘world once again’
- worldview art

- Zeigler und Kliphausen, Heinrich Anselm von
- Zweig, Stefan