Transfigurements
Subtitle: on the true sense of art
By: John Sallis.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780226734224
Subjects: Aesthetics; Art -- Philosophy
Description: "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 layers in these texts and theories while also marking their limits. By doing so, his aim is to show that philosophy needs to attend to art directly. Consequently, Sallis also addresses a wide range of works of art, including paintings by Raphael, Monet, and Klee; Shakespeare's comedies; and the music of Beethoven, Schubert, Mahler, and Tan Dun. Through these interpretations of classic works from both fields, Sallis puts forth a compelling new elaboration of the philosophy of art."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The invisibility of painting; title: Nature's song; title: Mixed arts; title: Music and imagination; title: Carnation and the eccentricity of painting; title: Soundings; title: Preposterous ascents: on comedy and philosophy; title: The promise of art.