Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists A Critical Reader

Name: Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists A Critical Reader
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ISBN: 9780231140959

ISBN-10: 0231140959

ISBN-13: 9780231140959

Edition: 2010

Authors: Christopher Kul-Want

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Philosophers approach art from a wholly unique perspective, and incorporating their thought into an analysis of art expands both our notion of what art can embody and our understanding of what criticism can achieve. Here, for the first time, Christopher Kul-Want brings together twenty-five primary philosophical texts on art written by twenty different philosophers. Stretching from the Enlightenment to postmodernism, these essays represent Continental philosophy and aesthetics, the Marxist intellectual tradition, and the practice of psychoanalysis, each one introduced by an overview and interpretation.In these essays Martin Heidegger discusses the meaning of the Greek temple and Van Gogh's…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 6/22/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 376
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.98" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: Art and Philosophy



Critique of Judgment




Introductory Lectures on Aesthetics




How the "True World" Finally Became a Fable: The History of an Error



The Will to Power as Art



Beyond the Pleasure Principle Leonardo da Vinci and a Memory of His Childhood




The Lugubrious Game




A Small History of Photography




Nietzsche's Overturning of Platonism



The Origin of the Work of Art



The Mirror Stage as Formative of the Function of the / Of the Gaze as Object Petit a




Las Meninas




Society




The Work of Art and Fantasy




Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography




Giotto's Joy Holbein's Dead Christ




Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles




Hysteria




Answering the Question: What Is Postmodernism?




Privation Is Like a Face




The Vestige of Art




Art and Philosophy




The Janus-Face of Politicized Art



Notes


Bibliography


Index