Reviews for Engineering for Safe Operation

The average rating for Engineering for Safe Operation based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2012-12-31 00:00:00 Andrej Blejec Victorian art critic Walter Pater said that all art aspires to the condition of music. With GWF Hegel, on the other hand, one might say that all of the arts aspire to the condition of poetry, and that all poetry aspires to the Idea of the Beautiful… a-a-and that the Beautiful is but a stepping stone along the way of Geist (Mind or Spirit or both) as it reveals itself to itself, and uses art, religion and philosophy to do so. It's all a big hierarchy, leading from the "Symbolic" arts of ancient peoples (reaching its apotheosis in architecture) to the "Classical" art of Hellenic sculpture and then to the "Romantic" arts of western European modernity: painting, music and poetry. But Hegel sees us as having passed out of the period of art's highest flowering and into a period more amenable to the reflection upon the meaning of art: art transcends itself by giving way to religion and philosophy, and after taking us part of the way to the Ideal it passes the baton to that which can complete the journey. 5*, then, not cos I agree with the Man, but because you hafta admire a work that sets out to do a thing, and then does it in high style. (OK, not a lot of actual style per se, perhaps, but with the inexhaustible thoroughness and rigor of the truly obsessed). But Hegel is just dipping a toe into the Vastness in this brief volume, en route to the voluminous sea of the Aesthetics (that I shall be bypassing for now), and I am but remarking here, on the appearance of his baby toenail as, all too briefly, it passed in front of my less than 20-20 vision. One would really have to go back and read Kant's Critique of Judgement and Schiller's Aesthetic Education to really get this (though the exhaustive, lengthy endnotes to this addition try to help, they do presuppose more background than I currently possess)--and then, of course, you'd want to go on to the two-volume Aesthetics proper, and I hope that one day I shall have the leisure to do so.

Review # 2 was written on 2015-08-20 00:00:00 Alfredo Barroga Having read this multiple times, I am always blown away by the clarity and force of the argumentation. This is the introduction to the must larger, multi-volume lectures on fine art. It provides a very interesting examination of the key parts of the larger work, and of particular interest are Hegel's discussion on how art is to be treated and his arguments for objectivism.