Transfigurements on the true sense of art - Sallis, John (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
Includes bibliographical references and index
The invisibility of painting -- Nature's song -- Mixed arts -- Music and imagination -- Carnation and the eccentricity of painting -- Soundings -- Preposterous ascents: on comedy and philosophy -- The promise of art
What is art really about? What is its true sense? For John Sallis, we cannot gain a genuine understanding of art by merely translating its effects into conceptual language. Rather, works of art must be approached in a way that does justice to their sensuous and enigmatic character--that illuminates their capacity to present truth without pretending to dispel the real mystery at art's core. Transfigurements develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. Sallis exposes new la