Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations of Works by Hegel -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Symbolic Form of Art -- 1. Kant's Theory of the Mathematical Sublime and the 'Boundlessness' of the Symbolic Form of Art -- 2. The Classical Sublimity of Judaism -- Chapter 2: The Classical Form of Art -- 1. The Original Epic -- 2. The Ideal -- Chapter 3: The Transition to the Revealed Religion and the Romantic Form of Art -- 1. The Revealed Religion -- 2. Representational Thought and the Romantic Form of Art -- 3. Traces of Left Hegelianism in Hegel's Lectures on Aesthetics -- 4. The End of Mythology -- Chapter 4: The Signifi cance of Kierkegaard's Interpretation of Don Giovanni in Relation to Hegel's Theory of the 'End' of Art -- 1. The 'End' of Art -- 2. The Opera as a Modern Art Form -- Chapter 5: Hegel and Lukács on the Possibility of a Modern Epic -- 1. The Problem of the Modern Epic -- 2. The Modern Epic and History -- 3. Civil Society as the Background to the Modern Epic -- Chapter 6: Myth and Society: A Common Theme in the Thought of Hegel and Sorel -- 1. Sorel's Myth of the General Strike -- 2. Myth and Modern Ethical Life -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.