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The Muses
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Hardcover
from Stanford Univ Pr (September 1, 1996)
9780804727808 | details & prices | 118 pages | 5.75 × 9.00 × 0.25 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $50.00
Paperback
from Stanford Univ Pr (September 1, 1996)
9780804727815 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.75 × 0.50 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $25.95
About: This book by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones Why are there several arts and not just one This question focuses on the point of maximal tension between the philosophical tradition and contemporary thinking about the arts the relation between the plurality of the human senses to which the plurality of the arts has most frequently been referred and sense or meaning in general Throughout the five essays Nancy s argument hinges on the culminating formulation of this relation in Hegel s Aesthetics and The Phenomenology of Spirit art as the sensible presentation of the Idea Demonstrating once again his renowned ability as a reader of Hegel Nancy scrupulously and generously restores Hegel s historical argument concerning art as a thing of the past as that which is negated by the dialectic of Spirit in the passage from aesthetic religion to revealed religion to philosophy
About: This book by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones Why are there several arts and not just one This question focuses on the point of maximal tension between the philosophical tradition and contemporary thinking about the arts the relation between the plurality of the human senses to which the plurality of the arts has most frequently been referred and sense or meaning in general Throughout the five essays Nancy s argument hinges on the culminating formulation of this relation in Hegel s Aesthetics and The Phenomenology of Spirit art as the sensible presentation of the Idea Demonstrating once again his renowned ability as a reader of Hegel Nancy scrupulously and generously restores Hegel s historical argument concerning art as a thing of the past as that which is negated by the dialectic of Spirit in the passage from aesthetic religion to revealed religion to philosophy