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Art and Objects (Paperback)
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Art and Objects (Paperback)
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Loot Price R568
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In this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his
view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy.
Whereas science must attempt to grasp an object in terms of its
observable qualities, philosophy and art cannot proceed in this way
because they don't have direct access to their objects. Hence
philosophy shares the same fate as art in being compelled to
communicate indirectly, allusively, or elliptically, rather than in
the clear propositional terms that are often taken - wrongly - to
be the sole stuff of genuine philosophy. Conceiving of philosophy
and art in this way allows us to reread key debates in aesthetic
theory and to view art history in a different way. The formalist
criticism of Greenberg and Fried is rejected for its refusal to
embrace the innate theatricality and deep multiplicity of every
artwork. This has consequences for art criticism, making pictorial
content more important than formalism thinks but less entwined with
the social sphere than anti-formalism holds. It has consequences
for art history too, as the surrealists, David, and Poussin, among
others, gain in importance. The close link between aesthetics and
ontology also invites a new periodization of modern philosophy as a
whole, and the habitual turn away from Kant's thing-in-itself
towards an increase in philosophical "immanence" is shown to be a
false dawn. This major work will be of great interest to students
and scholars of philosophy, aesthetics, art history and cultural
theory.
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