Hegel's ideas on aesthetics raised dialogue from the moment of their first publication, and this collection of articles covers a wide range of the topics still under discussion, including the conceptual basis of Hegel's organization of his aesthetics and the application of that through to architecture, painting, music and tragedy. Not all of the contributors here are disciples of Hegel, so the mix is lively as are the articles, which cover the symbolic and the classical in Romantic art, Hegel's approach to architecture and the beauty of sculpture, the eccentricity inherent in painting, music, theories of tragedy, the end and the future of art, post-Hegelian reflections on the end of art and nature, abstract art, religion and the modernity of Hegel's approach to art, the resulting "religion" of art, and the testy relationship between Hegel and the Romantics. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)