ABSTRACT
The phrase an ‘art of scholars’ comes from an essay on the relevance of Hegel’s aesthetics by Dieter Henrich. The passage reads:
The art which still remains possible must be incidental or retrospective, but in both variants it is, as it were, the art of scholars. For it can only emerge from an insight which cannot be acquired in the creative process itself and must therefore precede it. If art itself can no longer be theory, yet it is required of the artist that he become a theorist.
