We are glad to give notice of the release of the volume “Sense Is This Wonderful Word…”. Hegel and the Aesthetic, edited by Nicola Ramazzotto, Elena Romagnoli, and Alberto L. Siani (Brill, 2025).

From the publisher’s website:

A quest for sense is often taken to be a, if not the, main task of philosophy. Still, the relationship between philosophy and sense remains a complicated one, as “sense” is both what is most immediate in perception and what is most abstract and distant from perceptual immediacy. Such apparent contradiction is directly taken on by Hegel. The present collection reunites explorations of Hegel’s conception of sense from multiple perspectives, unified by their common reference to the aesthetic dimension. In turn, the complexity of “sense” allows different aspects of Hegel’s concept of the aesthetic to emerge, also in relation to contemporary debates.

Table of contents:

Nicola Ramazzotto, Elena Romagnoli and Alberto L. Siani, Introduction

Christian Krijnen, Absolute Spirit

Cinzia Ferrini, Sensation and Thing’s Finite Mode of Existence: How to Do Justice to the Real Externalities of Beings

Marina F. Bykova, Hegel and the Truth of Art

Francesco Campana, The Sense of Representation: on the Role of Vorstellung in Hegel’s Aesthetics

Mario Farina, Hegel’s Notion of Symbol: the Aesthetic Experience between System and Interpretation

Alberto L. Siani, Aesthetic Variations: Hegel between Philosophy of Art and Callistics

Bruno Haas, The Forms of Art: Symbolic, Iconic (Sculpture), Functional (Music)

Michael N. Forster, Hegel on Tragedy

Nicola Ramazzotto, Hegel and the Sense of Poetry

Paolo D’Angelo, Other Deaths of Art: on Some Antecedents of the Hegelian Thesis

Elena Romagnoli, From Plasticity to Movement: Human Body in Hegel’s Aesthetics

Klaus Vieweg, Hegel und die Wahlverwandtschaften

Kenneth R. Westphal, Hegel and World-Historical Art: Miles Davis in Berlin, 29 October 1983

Francesca Iannelli, Die Galaxie des Hyperästhetischen bei Hegel

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