Aesthetics after metaphysics
Subtitle: from mimesis to metaphor
By: by Miguel de Beistegui
Series: Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy -- 40
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
ISBN-13: 9780415539623
Subjects: Aesthetics; Metaphor; Metaphysics
Description: This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno) has consistently overlooked, such was its commitment--explicit or implicit--to mimesis and the metaphysics of truth it presupposes. De Beistegui refers to this dimension, which unfolds outside the space that stretches between the sensible and the supersensible--the space of metaphysics itself--as the hypersensible and show how the operation of art to which it corresponds is best described as metaphorical. The movement of the book, then, is from the classical or metaphysical aesthetics of mimesis (Part One) to the aesthetics of the hypersensible and metaphor (Part Two). Against much of the history of aesthetics and the metaphysical discourse on art, he argues that the philosophical value of art doesn't consist in its ability to bridge the space between the sensible and the supersensible, or the image and the Idea, and reveal the sensible as proto-conceptual, but to open up a different sense of the sensible. His aim, then, is to shift the place and role that philosophy attributes to art. --Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.
Table of contents: title: Aesthetics and metaphysics I: the mimetic schema; title: Aesthetics and metaphysics II: from Kant to Adorno; title: Aesthetics at the limit of metaphysics: intimations of the hypersensible; title: Metaphor beyond metaphysics?; title: Literature: Proust, Hölderlin; title: Sculpture: Chillida.