Aesthetics as Phenomenology: The Appearance of Things

by G nter Figal, Jerome Veith (Translator)

Overview

Connecting aesthetic experience with our experience of nature or with other cultural artifacts, Aesthetics as Phenomenology focuses on what art means for cognition, recognition, and affect—how art changes our everyday disposition or behavior. Günter Figal engages in a penetrating analysis of the moment at which, in our contemplation of a work of art, reaction and thought confront each other. For those trained in the visual arts and for more casual viewers, Figal unmasks art as a decentering experience that opens further possibilities for understanding our lives and our world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780253015518
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Publication date:	02/02/2015
Series:	Studies in Continental Thought
Pages:	292
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Günter Figal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany. He is author of Objectivity: Philosophy and the Hermeneutical and editor of The Heidegger Reader (IUP, 2009).

Jerome Veith teaches at Seattle University.

Table of Contents

Translator's Foreword
Introduction
Chapter One: Art, Philosophically
1. Why Art?
2. Which Art?
3. Philosophy of Art and Aesthetics
Chapter Two: Beauty
4. Free Play
5. Appearances and Things
6. Showing and Self-Showing
Chapter Three: Art Forms
7. Arts
8. Essential Determinations
9. Mixtures
Chapter Four: Nature
10. Oppositions
11. Limits and Inclusions
12. Primordial Appearance
Chapter Five: Space
13. Places
14. Emptiness
15. Here
Bibliography
Index of Names and Subjects
Index of Terms

What People are Saying About This

Texas A&M University - Theodore George

Carefully wrought and consummately presented, Günter Figal promises a rehabilitation of aesthetics against philosophical approaches that would detach the significance of art from the question of beauty.

Editorial Reviews

Aesthetics as Phenomenology is an important and potentially major contribution to the philosophy of art.

Phenomenological Reviews

"Aesthetics as Phenomenology is an important and potentially major contribution to the philosophy of art."—Phenomenological Reviews

"Carefully wrought and consummately presented, Günter Figal promises a rehabilitation of aesthetics against philosophical approaches that would detach the significance of art from the question of beauty."—Theodore George, Texas A&M University

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