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Book SynopsisFollowing Martin Heidegger's interpretation of the history of philosophy, this book outlines the ontological conditions of aesthetics, paying particular attention to the works of W Kandinsky, which reaffirm the ontological implications of art.
Trade ReviewArt's Claim to Truth offers much to work with with in the field of contemporary aesthetics. -- Daniel Guentchev Kinesis
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: The Hermeneutic Consequence of Art's Ontological Bearing, by Santiago Zabala Part I. Aesthetics 1. Beauty and Being in Ancient Aesthetics 2. Toward an Ontological Aesthetics 3. The Ontological Vocation of Twentieth-Century Poetics 4. Art, Feeling, and Originality in Heidegger's Aesthetics Part II. Hermeneutics 5. Pareyson: From Aesthetics to Ontology 6. From Phenomenological Aesthetics to Ontology of Art 7. Critical Methods and Hermeneutic Philosophy Part III. Truth 8. Aesthetics and Hermeneutics 9. Aesthetics and Hermeneutics in Hans-Georg Gadamer 10. The Work of Art as the Setting to Work of Truth 11. The Truth That Hurts Notes Index
