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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.
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- Pages:136 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:01/03/1997
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- ISBN:9780804727808
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:136 pages
- Publisher:Stanford University Press
- Publication Date:01/03/1997
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- ISBN:9780804727808
