Transfigurements : on the true sense of art /

Transfigurements : on the true sense of art /

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Author / Creator:	Sallis, John, 1938-
Imprint:	Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 192 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Aesthetics. Art -- Philosophy. Aesthetics. Art -- Philosophy. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11206067

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ISBN:	9780226734231 0226734234 0226734226 9780226734224 1282537946 9781282537941 9786612537943 6612537949
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
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.
Other form:	Print version: Sallis, John, 1938- Transfigurements. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2008 9780226734224

Table of Contents:

The invisibility of painting
Nature's song
Mixed arts
Music and imagination
Carnation and the eccentricity of painting
Soundings
Preposterous ascents: on comedy and philosophy
The promise of art.