The arts and the definition of the human
Subtitle: toward a philosophical anthropology
By: Joseph Margolis.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9780804759533; 9780804759540
Subjects: Painting -- Philosophy; Art -- Philosophy; Visual perception; Aesthetics; Philosophical anthropology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The definition of the human; title: Perceiving paintings as paintings I; title: Perceiving paintings as paintings II; title: "One and only one correct interpretation"; title: Toward a phenomenology of painting and literature; title: "Seeing-in," "make-believe," transfiguration" : the perception of pictorial representation; title: Beauty and truth and the passing of transcendental philosophy.