Between Word and Image by Dennis Schmidt

Between Word and Image by Dennis Schmidt

Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato. Identifying pivotal moments in the history of philosophy, Dennis J. Schmidt develops the question of philosophy's regard of the image in thinking by considering painting—where the image most clearly calls attention to itself as an image. Focusing on Heidegger and the work of Paul Klee, Schmidt pursues larger issues in the relationship between word, image, and truth. As he investigates alternative ways of thinking about truth through word and image, Schmidt shows how the form of art can indeed possess the capacity to change its viewers.

San Filippo is well-read in feminist and queer theory, and the book is sprinkled with ideas from those fields, which makes this most suitable for graduate-level readingIt can, however, serve as undergraduate coursework for students with a solid background in those subjects. . . . Highly recommended.

* Choice *

If anything, the most wonderful aspect of this book is just how much its tone captures indirectly the very texture of its thematized phenomenological challenge. Schmidt manages not only to raise a question, but to attune the reader to the sheer fact of gesture in painting.

* Continental Philosophy Review *

Following on the steps of Continental philosophers such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, and particularly Gadamer, Schmidt aims to show that artistic images can open on an experience of truth quite distinct from, yet just as valuable as, that occasioned by conceptual knowledge.

* Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism *

Dennis J. Schmidt is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and German at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life (IUP, 2001).

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ISBN 13	9780253006202
ISBN 10	0253006201
Titel	Between Word and Image
Autor	Dennis Schmidt
Serie	Studies In Continental Thought
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Indiana University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	2012-11-14
Seitenanzahl	200
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