Julia Peters (born 1978) is a professor of classical German philosophy at Heidelberg University. [1]
Peters received her PhD from University College London in 2009, with a dissertation on Art and Philosophy in Hegel's System. [2] In her book, Hegel on Beauty she claims that Hegel adheres to a neoclassical notion of beauty based on the body of the ethical individual. [3] The book has been reviewed by Martin Beck, [4] Martin Donougho, [5] Brent Kalar, [6] Alain Patrick Olivier, [7] and Francesco Campana. [8] [9] According to David Ciavatta, contrary to the readings provided by Terry Pinkard and Robert Pippin, which put beauty of a art entirely in the realm of Spirit, Peters proposes that Hegel offers a "robust aesthetics of nature". Although by concentrating on Hegel’s discussions of human nature—particularly his account of the body and the formation of habits—her analysis effectively limits itself to an account of "already spiritualized nature". [10]