The Origins of Modern Critical Thought: German Aesthetic and Literary Criticism from Lessing to Hegel

Citations and abbreviations; A note on selections and translations; Introduction; Part I. Lessing: 1. From Laocoon; 2. Letter to Nicolai; Part II. Herder: 3. Extract from Correspondence on the Ossian and the Songs of the Ancient People; 5. Extracts from Shakespeare; Part III. Kant: 5. Selections from the Critique of Judgement; Part IV. Schiller: 6. From On the Aesthetic Education of Man; 7. From On the Naive and Sentimental Poetry; Part V. Friedrich Schlegel: 8. On Incomprehensibility; 9. From Critical Fragments; 10. From Athenäum Fragments; 11. From Ideas; 12. From On Goethe's 'Meister'; 13. From Letter About the Novel; Part VI. Fichte: 14. From On the Nature of the Scholar; Part VII. Schelling: 15. Conclusion to System of Transcendental Idealism; 16. From Philosophy of Art; 17. On Dante in Relation to Philosophy; Part VIII. A. W. Schlegel: 18. From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature; Part IX. Novalis: 19. Monologue; Part X. Goethe: 20. From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship; 21. From Winckelmann; Part XI. Jean Paul Richter: 22. From School for Aesthetics; Part XII. Solger: 23. From Erwin; Part XIII. Schopenhauer: 24. From The World as Will and Representation; Part XIV. Hegel: 25. From Aesthetics: Lectures on Fine Art; Notes; Bibliography.