On Beauty and Being: Hans-Georg Gadamer's and Virginia Woolf's Hermeneutics of the Beautiful

ISBN-13: 9783631830185 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 310 str.

Malgorzata Holda

Opis

The book is a meditation on beauty and Being, interrogating affinities between Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and Virginia Woolf's philosophy of beauty and Being embodied in her oeuvre. It addresses beauty as a mode of being rather than a mere adornment of human existence.

Spis treści

Hermeneutics 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

O autorze

Malgorzata Holda, Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Lódz, Poland. PhD in British literature, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun; PhD in philosophy, The Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków. Junior Associate Fellow of the International Institute for Hermeneutics.