Aesthetics As Phenomenology - The Appearance of Things

For those trained in the visual arts and for more casual viewers, Figal unmasks art as a decentering experience that opens further possibilities for understanding our lives and our world.

List of contents

Translator's Foreword
Introduction
Chapter One: Art, Philosophically
1. Why Art?
2. Which Art?
3. Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics
Chapter Two: Beauty
4. Free Play
5. Appearances and Things
6. Showing and Self-Showing
Chapter Three: Art Forms
7. Arts
8. Essential Determinations
9. Mixtures
Chapter Four: Nature
10. Oppositions
11. Limits and Inclusions
12. Primordial Appearance
Chapter Five: Space
13. Places
14. Emptiness
15. Here
Bibliography
Index of Names and Subjects
Index of Terms

About the author

Günter Figal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany. He is author of Objectivity: Philosophy and the Hermeneutical and editor of The Heidegger Reader (IUP, 2009).

Jerome Veith teaches at Seattle University.

Product details

• Authors: Geunter Figal, Gnnter/ Veith Figal, Gunter Figal, Günter Figal, Figal Gunter
• Assisted by: Translated by Jerome Veith Gunter Figal (Editor), Jerome Veith (Translation)
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.02.2015
• EAN: 9780253015587
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01558-7
• No. of pages: 292
• Series: Studies in Continental Thought; Studies in Continental Thought; Indiana University Press (IPS)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Ästhetik