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| ISBN: | 9780226734231
0226734234
0226734226
9780226734224
1282537946
9781282537941
9786612537943
6612537949
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | What is art really about? What is its true sense? For John Sallis, we cannot gain a genuine understanding of art by merely translating its effects into conceptual language. Rather, works of art must be approached in a way that does justice to their sensuous and enigmatic character--that illuminates their capacity to present truth without pretending to dispel the real mystery at art's core. Transfigurements develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger. Sallis exposes new la.
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| Other form: | Print version: Sallis, John, 1938- Transfigurements. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 9780226734224
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