9780521339537-0521339537-The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays

The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays

ISBN-13: 9780521339537
ISBN-10: 0521339537
Author: Hans-Georg Gadamer
Publication date: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 220 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780521339537
ISBN-10: 0521339537
Author: Hans-Georg Gadamer
Publication date: 1987
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 220 pages

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The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays (ISBN-13: 9780521339537 and ISBN-10: 0521339537), written by authors Hans-Georg Gadamer, was published by Cambridge University Press in 1987. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Criticism (Arts History & Criticism, Aesthetics, Philosophy) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Criticism books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $6.8.

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This volume explores some of the more important of Hans-Georg Gadamer's extensive writings on art and literature. The principal text included is 'The Relevance of the Beautiful', Gadamer's most sustained treatment of philosophical aesthetics. The eleven other essays focus particularly on the challenge issued by modern painting and literature to our customary ideas of art, and in turn revitalize our understanding of it. Gadamer demonstrates the continuing importance of such concepts as imitation, truth, symbol, and play for our appreciation of contemporary art, and thereby establishes its continuity with the Western tradition. The essays here are not technical and are readily accessible to the beginning student and the general reader. The collection as a whole serves to illustrate the practice of hermeneutics and to introduce Gadamer's thought. Robert Bernasconi provides an introduction clarifying the central aims of the essays and their relations to Gadamer's major work, Truth and Method, and to the philosophy of art since Kant. A bibliography of Gadamer's writings available in English is also included.

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