Art and Truth After Plato

ISBN-13: 9780226040028 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 344 str.

Tom Rockmore

Opis

Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato s famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato s challenge was resolved long ago. In "Art and Truth after Plato," Tom Rockmore argues that Plato has in fact never been satisfactorily answered and to demonstrate that, he offers a comprehensive account of Plato s influence through nearly the whole history of Western aesthetics.Rockmore offers a cogent reading of the post-Platonic aesthetic tradition as a series of responses to Plato s position, examining a stunning diversity of thinkers and ideas. He visits Aristotle s Poetics, the medieval Christians, Kant s "Critique of Judgment," Hegel s phenomenology, Marxism, social realism, Heidegger, and many other works and thinkers, ending with a powerful synthesis that lands on four central aesthetic arguments that philosophers have debated. More than a mere history of aesthetics, "Art and Truth after Plato" presents a fresh look at an ancient question, bringing it into contemporary relief."