Arts Claim to Truth

Informationen zum Autor Gianni Vattimo teaches philosophy at the University of Turin and is a renowned public intellectual and member of the European parliament. His books with Columbia University Press are Christianity! Truth! and Weakening Faith: A Dialogue (with René Girard)! The Future of Religion (with Richard Rorty)! Dialogue with Nietzsche! and Nihilism and Emancipation. His forthcoming book! coauthored with Santiago Zabala! is Hermeneutic Communism. Santiago Zabala is Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Remains of Being and The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy! and editor of Weakening Philosophy! The Future of Religion! and Nihilism and Emancipation. Luca D'Isanto is a translator! editor! and writer of numerous publications on the religious and political turn in postmodern thought. Klappentext Following Heidegger's interpretation of the history of philosophy! Gianni Vattimo outlines the existential ontological conditions of aesthetics! paying particular attention to the works of Kandinsky! which reaffirm the ontological implications of art. Vattimo then builds on Hans-Georg Gadamer's theory of aesthetics and provides an alternative to a rationalistic-positivistic criticism of art. This is the heart of Vattimo's argument! and with it he demonstrates how hermeneutical philosophy reaffirms art's ontological status and makes clear the importance of hermeneutics for aesthetic studies. In a final section! Vattimo articulates the consequences of reclaiming the ontological status of aesthetics without its metaphysical implications! holding Aristotle's concept of beauty responsible for the dissolution of metaphysics itself. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Hermeneutic Consequence of Art's Ontological Bearing! by Santiago ZabalaPart I. Aesthetics 1. Beauty and Being in Ancient Aesthetics2. Toward an Ontological Aesthetics3. The Ontological Vocation of Twentieth-Century Poetics4. Art! Feeling! and Originality in Heidegger's AestheticsPart II. Hermeneutics 5. Pareyson: From Aesthetics to Ontology6. From Phenomenological Aesthetics to Ontology of Art7. Critical Methods and Hermeneutic PhilosophyPart III. Truth 8. Aesthetics and Hermeneutics9. Aesthetics and Hermeneutics in Hans-Georg Gadamer10. The Work of Art as the Setting to Work of Truth11. The Truth That HurtsNotesIndex ...

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• Authors: Gianni Vattimo, Vattimo Gianni
• Assisted by: Santiago Zabala (Editor), Zabala Santiago (Editor), Luca D'Isanto (Translation), D'Isanto Luca (Translation)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.04.2010
• EAN: 9780231138512
• ISBN: 978-0-231-13851-2
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought