Art as the Absolute

Art's Relation to Metaphysics in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer

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Paul Gordon

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Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who followed after, including Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem of how one can “know” the absolute in non-conceptual, non-discursive terms. The idea of art’s inherent relation to the absolute, first explicitly rendered by Kant, is examined in major works from 1790 to 1823. The first and last chapters, on Plato and Nietzsche respectively, deal with precursors and “post-cursors” of this idea. Gordon shows and seeks to reddress the lack of attention to this idea after Hegel, as well as in contemporary reassessments of this period. Art as the Absolute will be of interest to students and scholars studying aesthetics from both a literary and philosophical perspective.

Author Biography:

Paul Gordon is Professor of Comparative Literature and Humanities at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. He is the author of The Critical Double: Figurative Meaning in Aesthetic Discourse (1995), Tragedy After Nietzsche: Rapturous Superabundance (2001), and Dial ‘M’ for Mother: A Freudian Hitchcock (2008).

Release date NZ

September 24th, 2015

Author

Paul Gordon

Audience

Tertiary Education (US: College)

Pages

216

Dimensions

152x229x13

ISBN-13

9781501308017

Product ID

23029335

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