This book, by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers,
begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern
sustained in the four succeeding ones: Why are there several arts
and not just one? This question focuses on the point of maximal
tension between the philosophical tradition and contemporary
thinking about the arts: the relation between the plurality of the
human senses--to which the plurality of the arts has most
frequently been referred--and sense or meaning in general.
Throughout the five essays, Nancy's argument hinges on the
culminating formulation of this relation in Hegel's Aesthetics and
The Phenomenology of Spirit--art as the sensible presentation of
the Idea. Demonstrating once again his renowned ability as a reader
of Hegel, Nancy scrupulously and generously restores Hegel's
historical argument concerning art as a thing of the past, as that
which is negated by the dialectic of Spirit in the passage from
aesthetic religion to revealed religion to philosophy.
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