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Transfigurements On the True Sense of Art
Sallis, John 
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
ISBN10: 0226734234 ISBN13: 9780226734231 DDC: 111.85 Edition: 25 (NL)

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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 characterþthat 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.

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Description based upon print version of record. Contents; Acknowledgments; References; Prefigurements; 1 The Invisibility of Painting; 2 Nature's Song; 3 Mixed Arts; 4 Music and Imagination; 5 Carnation and the Eccentricity of Painting; 6 Soundings; 7 Preposterous Ascents: On Comedy and Philosophy; 8 The Promise of Art; Index; 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 characterþthat 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. EBL RENTAL. Contents; Acknowledgments; References; Prefigurements; 1 The Invisibility of Painting; 2 Nature's Song; 3 Mixed Arts; 4 Music and Imagination; 5 Carnation and the Eccentricity of Painting; 6 Soundings; 7 Preposterous Ascents: On Comedy and Philosophy; 8 The Promise of Art; Index;

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