Art of the modern age
Subtitle: philosophy of art from Kant to Heidegger
By: Jean-Marie Schaeffer ; translated by Steven Rendall ; with a foreword by Arthur C. Danto
Series: New French thought
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Aesthetics, Modern; Art -- Philosophy
Work titles: Art de l'âge moderne.
Description: "Jean-Marie Schaeffer explores the writings of Kant, Schlegel, Novalis, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Heidegger to show that these diverse thinkers shared a common approach to art, which he calls the "speculative theory." According to this theory, art offers a special kind of intuitive, quasi-mystical knowledge, radically different from the rational knowledge acquired by science.

This view encouraged theorists to consider artistic geniuses the high-priests of humanity, creators of works that reveal the invisible essence of the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [309]-346) and indexes