| Unfinished Worlds: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer Contributor(s): Davey, Nicholas (Author) |
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ISBN: 0748695265 ISBN-13: 9780748695263 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press OUR PRICE: $93.50 Product Type: Other - Other Formats Published: May 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Dewey: 111.85 |
| Physical Information: 1 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |