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Critique of Judgment
The Critique of Judgment (Kritik der Urteilskraft) is a 1790 work by Immanuel Kant, the third of his three Critiques, examining aesthetic judgment and teleology.
Gesamtkunstwerk
Gesamtkunstwerk, German for "total work of art", is the ideal of uniting poetry, music, dance, and visual art into one work. Coined by Trahndorff in 1827 and realized by Wagner in his 1849 essays, the Ring cycle, and Bayreuth, it later shaped Bauhaus design, film, and immersive multimedia.
Negative capability
Negative capability, a phrase John Keats coined once in a December 1817 letter to his brothers, names the capacity to rest in uncertainties, mysteries, and doubts; later adopted by psychoanalysis (Bion), leadership studies, and education research.
On the Aesthetic Education of Man
On the Aesthetic Education of Man is Friedrich Schiller's 1795 work of aesthetics, published as 27 letters and arguing that beauty and art can prepare humanity for political liberty.
Weltschmerz
Weltschmerz, German for world-pain and also called world-weariness, is a mood of sadness about life arising from awareness of evil, suffering, and the gap between the world as it is and as it ought to be.