Other writers of the eighteenth century: Batteux--The English: W. Hogarth--E. Burke--H. Home--Eclecticism and sensationalism: E. Platner--Fr. Hemsterhuis--Neo-Platonism and mysticism: Winckelmann--Beauty and lack of significance--Winckelmann's contradictions and compromises--A. R. Mengs--G. E. Lessing--Theorists of ideal Beauty--G. Spalletti and the characteristic--Beauty and the characteristic: Hirt, Meyer, Goethe VIII IMMANUEL KANT I. Kant--Kant and Vico--Identity of the concept of Art in Kant and Baumgarten--Kant's "Lectures"--Art in the _Critique of Judgment_--Imagination in Kant's system--The forms of intuition and the Transcendental Æsthetic--Theory of Beauty distinguished by Kant from that of Art--Mystical features in Kant's theory of Beauty IX THE ÆSTHETIC OF IDEALISM: SCHILLER, SCHELLING, SOLGER, HEGEL The _Critique of Judgment_ and metaphysical idealism--F. Schiller--Relations between Schiller and Kant--The æsthetic sphere as the sphere of Play--Æsthetic education--Vagueness and lack of precision in Schiller's Æsthetic--Schiller's caution and the rashness of the Romanticists--Ideas on Art: J. P. Richter--Romantic Æsthetic and idealistic Æsthetic--J. G. Fichte--Irony: Schlegel, Tieck, Novalis--F. Schelling--Beauty and character--Art and Philosophy--Ideas and the gods: Art and mythology--K. W. Solger--Fancy and imagination--Art, practice and religion--G. W. F. Hegel--Art in the sphere of absolute spirit--Beauty as sensible appearance of the Idea--Æsthetic in metaphysical idealism and Baumgartenism--Mortality and decay of art in Hegel's system X SCHOPENHAUER AND HERBART Æsthetic mysticism in the opponents of idealism--A. Schopenhauer--Ideas as the object of art--Æsthetic catharsis--Signs of a better theory in Schopenhauer--J. F. Herbart--Pure Beauty and relations of form--Art as sum of content and form--Herbart and Kantian thought XI FRIEDRICH SCHLEIERMACHER Æsthetic of content and Æsthetic of form: meaning of the contrast--Friedrich Schleiermacher--Wrong judgements concerning him--Schleiermacher contrasted with his predecessors--Place assigned to Æsthetic in his Ethics--Æsthetic activity as immanent and individual--Artistic truth and intellectual truth--Difference of artistic consciousness from feeling and religion--Dreams and art: inspiration and deliberation--Art and the typical--Independence of art--Art and language--Schleiermacher's defects--Schleiermacher's services to Æsthetic XII THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE: HUMBOLDT AND STEINTHAL Progress of Linguistic--Linguistic speculation at the beginning of the nineteenth century--Wilhelm von Humboldt: relics of intellectualism--Language as activity: internal form--Language and art in Humboldt--II. Steinthal: the linguistic function independent of the logical--Identity of the problems of the origin and the nature of language--Steinthal's mistaken ideas on art: his failure to unite Linguistic and Æsthetic XIII MINOR GERMAN ÆSTHETICIANS