Aesthetics as Phenomenology: The Appearance of Things (Studies in Continental Thought) - Hardcover

Figal, Günter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0253015510 ISBN 13: 9780253015518

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Connecting aesthetic experience with our experience of nature or with other cultural artifacts, Aesthetics as Phenomenology focuses on what art means for cognition, recognition, and affect―how art changes our everyday disposition or behavior. Günter Figal engages in a penetrating analysis of the moment at which, in our contemplation of a work of art, reaction and thought confront each other. For those trained in the visual arts and for more casual viewers, Figal unmasks art as a decentering experience that opens further possibilities for understanding our lives and our world.

About this title

About the Author:

Günter Figal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany. He is author of Objectivity: Philosophy and the Hermeneutical and editor of The Heidegger Reader (IUP, 2009).

Jerome Veith teaches at Seattle University.

Review:

Carefully wrought and consummately presented, Günter Figal promises a rehabilitation of aesthetics against philosophical approaches that would detach the significance of art from the question of beauty. (Theodore George Texas A&M University)

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0253015510
• ISBN 13: 9780253015518
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 292