Apolog
The term apolog ( Greek ἀπόλογος apólogos ) originally referred to a 'fairytale story'. Later, the meaning of the word shifted so that it was used to denote ' instructive fables ', especially those with moral and didactic content. It was characterized by a clearly pronounced teaching at the end ("And the moral of the story ...").
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel dedicates a brief consideration to the problem of the apolog in his lectures on aesthetics .
He defines the apologue as follows: “[He] (...) can be regarded as a parable which not only uses the individual case in parables to illustrate a general meaning, but in this disguise itself brings about and pronounces the general sentence, in that it really does in the single trap is included, which is however only told as a single example. (...) In the Apologue, the narrative is passed on in such a way that its outcome gives the doctrine itself without mere comparison; B. in the »Treasure digger«: Day work, evening guests, acidic weeks, happy festivals. Be your magic word in the future. ”As an example of an apolog, he cites Goethe's“ The God and the Bajadere ”.
The word apolog is also part of the title of a work by Friedrich Adolf Krummacher ("Apologen und Paramythien"), which appeared in 1809, and a work by Ernst Elias Bessler ("Apological Poetry"), which appeared in 1717.
Individual evidence
- ↑ In Volume 2 of the work: “Development of the ideal to the special forms of the beautiful in art”, Section I. “The symbolic art form”, subsection A. “Comparisons that begin from the external”, point 2. “Parable, proverb, apolog” , Sub-item C “The Apolog”.