Abstract
This essay endeavours to cover and clarify the extraordinarily long and complicated approval process – unparalleled in the history of European aesthetics – of the first Austrian court-approved university textbook of aesthetics of local provenance, Franz Ficker’s Aesthetik (1830). The detailed account of the negotiations preceding the approval is followed by general conclusions concerning the nature of Austrian aesthetics, the operation of Austrian universities, and Austrian university policy in the period preceding the March 1848 revolution. The article includes translation of selected passages from the Ficker’s textbook.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.33134/eeja.178 | Journal eISSN: 2571-0915
Language: English
Page range: 218 - 258
Published on: Sep 1, 2018
Published by: Helsinki University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
© 2018 Tomáš Hlobil, published by Helsinki University Press
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.