TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nancy,Jean-Luc
TI  - The muses
T2  - Meridian, crossing aesthetics
SN  - 0804727805
AV  - BH39 .N2713 1996
U1  - 701 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Stanford, Calif.
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Aesthetics
KW  - Arts
KW  - Philosophy
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-118)
N2  - "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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0710/96010880-b.html
ER  -