Senses of landscape
By: John Sallis
Series: Studies in comparative and continental philosophy; Northwestern University studies in comparative and continental philosophy
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Evanston, Illinois
Language: eng
Number of pages: 147
ISBN-13: 9780810131095; 9780810131071; 9780810131088
Subjects: Art and philosophy; Philosophy; Nature (Aesthetics); Landscape painting
Description: Beginning with the assertion that earth is the elemental place that grants an abode to humans and to other living things, in Senses of Landscape the philosopher John Sallis turns to landscapes, and in particular to their representation in painting, to present a power{u00AD}ful synthetic work. Senses of Landscape proffers three kinds of analyses, which, though distinct, continually intersect in the course of the book. The first consists of extended analyses of distinctive landscapes from four exemplary painters, Paul Cezanne, Caspar David Friedrich, Paul Klee, and Guo Xi. Sallis then turns to these art{u00AD}ists{u2019} own writings{u2014}treatises, essays, and letters{u2014}about art in general and landscape painting in particular, and he sets them into a philosophical context. The third kind of analysis draws both on Sallis{u2019}s theoretical writings and on the canonical texts in the philosophy of art (Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Heidegger). These analyses present for a wide audience a profound sense of landscape and of the earthly abode of the human.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The bounds of landscape --; title: The density of landscape --; title: The tragedy of landscape --; title: The resonance of landscape --; title: The effacement of landscape.