Unfinished Worlds: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer

ISBN-13: 9780748686223 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 200 str.

Nicholas Davey

Opis

Gadamer's aesthetics demonstrates that the experience of art is grounded in the objectivities of language, history and tradition. By treating words and images as transmittable placeholders for meanings and concepts, hermeneutics gives a persuasive account of how artworks communicate. Davey demonstrates how hermeneutics transforms aesthetic reflection into a poignant attentive practice that is open to the unexpected. This new "poetics" is relevant not only to the understanding of art but also to showing, explaining and defending the cognitive content of the humanities. Hermeneutic aesthetics provides a sound basis for re-thinking humanities disciplines as critical-creative practices able to re-envision the future.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Series Editor’s Preface; Preface: Images of Movement; 1. Hermeneutics and Aesthetics; 2. Gadamer’s Re-Orientation of Aesthetics; 3. Aesthetic Attentiveness and the Question of Distanciation; 4. Theoros and Spectorial Participation; 5. Presentations, Appearance and Likeness; 6. Art and the Art of Language; 7. The Redemptive Image; Bibliography; Index.