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The muses / Jean-Luc Nancy ; translated by Peggy Kamuf.

By:

Nancy, Jean-Luc [author.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1996Description: 118 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0804727805
9780804727808
0804727813
9780804727815

Uniform titles:

Muses. English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

701 20

LOC classification:

BH39 .N2713 1996

Online resources:

Contributor biographical information

Summary: "This collection, by one of the most challenging of contemporary thinkers, asks the question: 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 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. He considers the emergence of art as presentation rather than representation and looks at the contemporary situation of art, and the question of whether art today is still art. Other essays provide intricate and compelling readings of Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin and an analysis of a traced hand in the grotto of Lascaux as the essential mimetic gesture."--Publisher description.

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Book	City Campus City Campus Main Collection	701 NAN (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		A492591B

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-118).

"This collection, by one of the most challenging of contemporary thinkers, asks the question: 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 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. He considers the emergence of art as presentation rather than representation and looks at the contemporary situation of art, and the question of whether art today is still art. Other essays provide intricate and compelling readings of Caravaggio's Death of the Virgin and an analysis of a traced hand in the grotto of Lascaux as the essential mimetic gesture."--Publisher description.

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