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Vattimo, Gianni, 1936-

Art's claim to truth / Gianni Vattimo ; edited by Santiago Zabala ; translated by Luca D'Isanto. - New York : Columbia University Press, c2008. - xxii, 190 p. ; 24 cm. - Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-182) and index.

Beauty and being in ancient aesthetics -- Toward an ontological aesthetics -- The ontological vocation of twentieth-century poetics -- Art, feeling, and originality in Heidegger's aesthetics -- Pareyson: from aesthetics to ontology -- From phenomenological aesthetics to ontology of art -- Critical methods and hermeneutic philosophy -- Aesthetics and hermeneutics -- Aesthetics and hermeneutics in Hans-Georg Gadamer -- The work of art as the setting to work of truth -- The truth that hurts.


Translated from the Italian.

ISBN: 9780231138505 (cloth : alk. paper) 0231138504 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780231515665 (ebook) 0231515669 (ebook)

LCCN: 2007041079

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA858870 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 014595613 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Aesthetics.
Ontology.
Poetry.

LC Class. No.: BH39 / .V3413 2008

Dewey Class. No.: 111/.85