Complete and annotated edition of a fundamental text, in a discipline that is thus defined by Hegel: "These lessons deal with aesthetics; their objective is the vast realm of the beautiful and, more precisely, their field is art, that is, , beautiful art". Of course, the name aesthetics is not entirely appropriate for this object, properly speaking, since "aesthetics" more accurately designates the science of meaning, of feeling, and with this meaning it was born as a new science or, rather, as something that in the Wolffian school had to become a philosophical discipline at that time when in Germany works of art were considered in relation to the feelings that should be produced, for example, feelings of pleasure, admiration, fear, compassion , etc. In view of the inadequacy or, rather, the superficiality of this name, attempts were made to forge others, such as, for example, callist...read more