Throughout the five essays Nancy s argument hinges on the culminatingformulation of this relation in Hegel s Aesthetics and The Phenomenology ofSpirit art as th... » 

Throughout the five essays Nancy s argument hinges on the culminatingformulation of this relation in Hegel s Aesthetics and The Phenomenology ofSpirit art as the sensible presentation of the Idea. Demonstrating once againhis renowned ability as a reader of Hegel Nancy scrupulously and generouslyrestores Hegel s historical argument concerning art as a thing of the past asthat which is negated by the dialectic of Spirit in the passage from aestheticreligion to revealed religion to philosophy. «