The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays Fredrick J. Long Author: Traian Nicola

Author: Traian Nicola

In an easy-to-understand and often humorous style

Author: Zoey Dean

ISBN13: 9780664255619

The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays Fredrick J. Long Author: Traian NicolaThis volume explores some of the more important of Hans Georg Gadamer's extensive writings on art and literature. The principal text included is 'The Relevance of the Beautiful', Gadamer's most sustained treatment of philosophical aesthetics. The eleven other essays focus particularly on the challenge issued by modern painting and literature to our customary ideas of art, and in turn revitalize our understanding of it. Gadamer demonstrates the