Beyond Representation
Subtitle: Philosophy and Poetic Imagination (Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and the Arts)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: April 26, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9780521480796
Subjects: Aesthetics; Theory Of Literature; Modern Philosophy; Philosophy; European - General; History & Surveys - General; Philosophy / General; General; Philosophy in literature
First sentence: Twice upon a time, in both the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries and again in the twentieth-century heydays of logical atomism and logical positivism, the task of philosophy - so Richard Rorty and Ian Hacking have reminded us - was to provide a critical theory of representations of the world.