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Art as the Absolute

By Paul Gordon

Art as the Absolute

By Paul Gordon

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Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who followed after, including Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem of how one can "know¿? the absolute in non-conceptual, non-discursive terms.
The idea of art's inherent relation to the absolute, first explicitly rendered by Kant, is examined in major works from 1790 to 1823. The first and last chapters, on Plato and Nietzsche respectively, deal with precursors and "post-cursors¿? of this idea. Gordon shows and seeks to reddress the lack of attention to this idea after Hegel, as well as in contemporary reassessments of this period. Art as the Absolute will be of interest to students and scholars studying aesthetics from both a literary and philosophical perspective.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
212
Release Date:
2017-03-23
Publication Date:
2017-03-23
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1501330551
ISBN13:
9781501330551
Weight:
315 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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