The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 2 (of 4): Hegel's Aesthetik
Georg Hegel · en
[Footnote 91: _Aushöhlen muss._ We should rather say that the
allegorist is forced to attenuate (lit. hollow out) the substance of
subjectivity, etc. But I have left the more literal rendering.]
[Footnote 92: In the German _fassen_, _begreifen._]
[Footnote 93: _Einer konkreten Anschauung._ That is, a quality or
feature that belongs to the phenomena of the concrete world of
perception.]
[Footnote 94: Of course this is not so in the English equivalent, where
the primary sense is still material.]
[Footnote 95: Lit., "Of expressions in the strict sense of the term."]
[Footnote 96: _Ihr ruhiger vollständig ausgestaltender Sinn._ The
meaning that declares itself completely through the form in classic
repose.]
[Footnote 97: _Ausführliche_, explicit in all its detail.]
[Footnote 98: _Das Für-sich-seyn._]
[Footnote 99: I give the literal translation. I presume a more
intelligible one would be "but actual existence in its self-defined
concreteness." The passage is not easy to follow.]
[Footnote 100:
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Silent we pounded up carbon, saltpeter, and sulphur,
Set the train going. Good friend! How did our cracker find _you?_
Some as illuminate balls soared prodigious while others exploded,
Many we flashed in our fun simply the eye to delight.
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[Footnote 101: I find this analysis of the image more than usually
difficult to follow, I have therefore made my translation very literal.
I must confess that this distinction between the image and the metaphor
appears to me rather an example of hyper-subtlety on Hegel's part, or
as some might say, an effort to make what is virtually only a verbal
distinction correspond to a more real difference of idea.]
[Footnote 102: That is the emphatically personal.]
[Footnote 103: _Die Schwelgerei._]
[Footnote 104: In the German the sentence is continuous. Our version
clearly gives another reading to the Hebrew.]
[Footnote 105: May be a misprint for "thy presence," _deine_ instead of
_die._]
[Footnote 106: Chapman's translation.]
[Footnote 107: Chapman's translation, somewhat an extension of the
Greek it must be admitted.]
[Footnote 108: _Theoretisch_, _i.e._, in contemplative repose.]
[Footnote 109: Such I take to be the contrast implied in the words _den
Adel ihrer Gesinnung_ and _die Macht ihrers Gemüths. Gesinnung_ is the
sense-perception. _Gemüth_ includes the creative fertility.]
[Footnote 110: _Hier_, _i.e._, as contrasted with the first stage of
the discussion.]
[Footnote 111: "Henry IV, Part II," act i, scene I.]
[Footnote 112: "King Richard II," act iv, sc. 1.]
[Footnote 113: "King Henry VIII," act iii, sc. 1.]
[Footnote 114: "Julius Caesar," act iv, sc. 3.]
[Footnote 115: "Macbeth," act v, sc. 5.]
[Footnote 116: "Henry VIII," act iii, sc. 2.]
[Footnote 117: "Antony and Cleopatra," act V, sc. 2.]