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Full Idea
Hegel locates the significance of art in its role in cultural life in general, not in relation to the psychological needs of individuals.
Gist of Idea
For Hegel the importance of art concerns the culture, not the individual
Source
report of Georg W.F.Hegel (Lectures on Aesthetics [1826]) by Richard Eldridge - G.W.F. Hegel (aesthetics) 1
Book Ref
'Key Thinkers in Aesthetics', ed/tr. Giovannelli,Alessandro [Continuum 2012], p.77
A Reaction
I'm beginning to see that art is a wonderful focus and test case for political attitudes. Roughly, liberalism focuses on individual responses, but more societal views (from right and left) see it in terms of role in the community. Which are you?