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Artistic Truth: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure
Lambert Zuidervaart
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Description for Artistic Truth: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure
Paperback. This book portrays artistic truth as a process of imaginative disclosure. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPK; HPN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
It is unfashionable to talk about artistic truth. Yet the issues traditionally addressed under that term have not disappeared. Indeed, questions concerning the role of the artist in society, the relationship between art and knowledge and the validity of cultural interpretation have intensified. Lambert Zuidervaart challenges intellectual fashions. He proposes a new critical hermeneutics of artistic truth that engages with both analytic and continental philosophies and illuminates the contemporary cultural scene. People turn to the arts as a way of finding orientation in their lives, communities and institutions. But philosophers, hamstrung by their own theories of truth, have been unsuccessful ... Read more
It is unfashionable to talk about artistic truth. Yet the issues traditionally addressed under that term have not disappeared. Indeed, questions concerning the role of the artist in society, the relationship between art and knowledge and the validity of cultural interpretation have intensified. Lambert Zuidervaart challenges intellectual fashions. He proposes a new critical hermeneutics of artistic truth that engages with both analytic and continental philosophies and illuminates the contemporary cultural scene. People turn to the arts as a way of finding orientation in their lives, communities and institutions. But philosophers, hamstrung by their own theories of truth, have been unsuccessful ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521101240
SKU
V9780521101240
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About Lambert Zuidervaart
Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto.
Reviews for Artistic Truth: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure
"What art has to do with truth, if anything, is an issue that flits about on the periphery of most philosophy of art of the contemporary period. Zuidervaart is the first to place it in the center of attention. He does so by critically engaging both the analytic and continental traditions in the course of developing his own ideas
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