Description
Book SynopsisThe book is an exploration of the affinities between Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and Virginia Woolf’s philosophy of beauty and Being embodied in her oeuvre. The study addresses beauty as a mode of being rather than a mere adornment of human existence. Tracing Plato’s legacy in the two authors, it espouses the proximity of truth and beauty, and argues for beauty’s restorative capacity discerned in the repetitive patterns of the universe. Showing the poetics of Gadamer and Woolf as mutually interpenetrating, it encourages to see the beauty of the poetic word as a gateway to Being. This meditation on beauty and Being contests the prevailing ways of thinking about the (in)dependent fields of literature and philosophy.
Table of ContentsHermeneutics of the beautiful – Hans-Georg Gadamer’s ontology of art as play – Virginia Woolf’s philosophy of beauty and Being – Beauty as a mode of Being – Beauty’s restorative capacity – The beauty of poetry as a gateway to Being – The ‘moment of being’ and the beauty of authenticity – The trope of eternal renewal
