Art And Truth After Plato
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780226040028
Description: Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato's famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato's challenge was resolved long ago. In this book, Tom Rockmore argues that Plato has in fact never been satisfactorily answered - and to demonstrate that, he offers a comprehensive account of Plato's influence through nearly the whole history of Western aesthetics.