Vorlesungen über Aesthetik. Herausgeber: Karl Wilhelm Ludwig
Leipzig: Brockhaus, 1829. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. xvi. 475 (2)pp. 1/4 leather over marbled boards. Decorated page edges. Wonderful work on aesthetics, written by renowned German philosopher Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Solger (see below). With errata pages at end. Back strip missing, binding still firm. Age wear to binding. Browning and foxing throughout. Overall very readable and relatively tight. In German, in Gothic script. Binding in fair, book in good condition. g. Item #18963
On the author (Source: Public domain encyclopedia):
Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Solger (1780 – 1819) was a German philosopher and academic. He is known as a theorist of Romanticism, and of irony. His Erwin, Vier Gespräche über das Schöne und die Kunst (1815) was a work on aesthetics, in which he took issue with August Wilhelm Schlegel, and which influenced both Hegel and Heinrich Heine.
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