Senses of Landscape (Comparative and Continental Philosophy) - Softcover

Sallis, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810131099 ISBN 13: 9780810131095

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2015

Synopsis

Beginning with the assertion that earth is the elemental place that grants an abode to humans and to other living things, in Senses of Landscape the philosopher John Sallis turns to landscapes, and in particular to their representation in painting, to present a power­ful synthetic work.

Senses of Landscape proffers three kinds of analyses, which, though distinct, continually intersect in the course of the book. The first consists of extended analyses of distinctive landscapes from four exemplary painters, Paul Cezanne, Caspar David Friedrich, Paul Klee, and Guo Xi. Sallis then turns to these art­ists’ own writings—treatises, essays, and letters—about art in general and landscape painting in particular, and he sets them into a philosophical context. The third kind of analysis draws both on Sallis’s theoretical writings and on the canonical texts in the philosophy of art (Kant, Schelling, Hegel, and Heidegger). These analyses present for a wide audience a profound sense of landscape and of the earthly abode of the human.

About this title

About the Author:

JOHN SALLIS is Frederick J. Adelmann Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. His works include Logic of Imagination: The Expanse of the Elemental (2012), Light Traces (2014), and Klee’s Mirror (2014).

Review:

“Original, precise, and erudite, Senses of Landscape provokes a rare combination of serenity, excitement, and insight. The writing could not be more lucid. The author’s thoughts on landscape somehow combine surprise with inevitability.”--Bernard Freydberg, Duquesne University, author of The Thought of John Sallis (Northwestern University Press, 2012)

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0810131099
• ISBN 13: 9780810131095
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128