The relevance of the beautiful and other essays / Hans-Georg Gadamer ; translated by Nicholas Walker ; edited with an introduction by Robert Bernasconi.

By: Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002
Contributor(s): Bernasconi, Robert
Material type: TextTextLanguage: engger Publisher: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986Description: xxiii, 191 p. ; 22 cmISBN: 0521241782; 0521339537 (pbk.)Uniform titles: Essays. Selections English Subject(s): Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century | Philosophy, Modern -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 111/.85 LOC classification: B3248.G34 | G33 1986Online resources: Sample text | Publisher description | Table of contents
Contents:
Pt. 1. The relevance of the beautiful -- pt. 2. Essays. The festive character of theater -- Composition and interpretation -- Image and gesture -- The speechless image -- Art and imitation -- On the contribution of poetry to the search for truth -- Poetry and mimesis -- The play of art -- Philosophy and poetry -- Aesthetic and religious experience -- Appendix: Intuition and vividness / translated by Dan Tate.
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Selection of essays previously untranslated from the German.

Includes bibliography (p. [171]-181) and index. "Gadamer's works in English translation"--P. [183].

Pt. 1. The relevance of the beautiful -- pt. 2. Essays. The festive character of theater -- Composition and interpretation -- Image and gesture -- The speechless image -- Art and imitation -- On the contribution of poetry to the search for truth -- Poetry and mimesis -- The play of art -- Philosophy and poetry -- Aesthetic and religious experience -- Appendix: Intuition and vividness / translated by Dan Tate.

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