Transfigurements: on the true sense of art
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Main Author: Sallis, John (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2008
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Item Description: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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 192 pages)
ISBN:0226734234
9780226734231

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