Abstract

Alberto L. Siani’s volume Hegel and the Present of Art’s Past Character represents a successful attempt to actualize Hegelian aesthetic reflection and his philosophy more generally, precisely because of that thesis of the “past character” of art (far better known as the “end of art”) that for some interpreters seals the obsolescence of Hegel’s philosophy of art. Indeed, Alberto Siani is neither in the ranks of the reductionists, who (like Eva Geulen) circumscribe the thesis to a rumor, nor in...