Between word and image
Subtitle: Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on gesture and genesis
By: Dennis J. Schmidt
Series: Studies in Continental thought
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
ISBN-13: 9780253006189; 9780253006202; 9780253006226
Subjects: Image (Philosophy); Aesthetics; Thought and thinking
Description: Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato. Identifying pivotal moments in the history of philosophy, Dennis J. Schmidt develops the question of philosophy's regard of the image in thinking by considering painting?where the image most clearly calls attention to itself as an image. Focusing on Heidegger and the work of Paul Klee, Schmidt pursues larger issues in the relationship between word, image, and truth. As he investigates alternative ways of thinking about truth through word and image, Schmidt shows how the form of art can indeed possess the capacity to change its viewers.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.        ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the genesis of the question; title: Unfolding the question: an excentric history; title: Heidegger and Klee: an attempt at a new beginning; title: On word, image, and gesture: another attempt at a beginning; title: Afterword: the question of genesis for now.