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Record Nr.

UNINA9910462279403321

Autore

Beistegui Miguel de <1966-, >

Titolo

Aesthetics after metaphysics : from mimesis to metaphor / / Miguel de Beistegui

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-58626-6

9786613898715

0-203-10272-X

1-136-24144-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (208 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in contemporary philosophy ; ; 40

Disciplina

111/.85

Soggetti

Aesthetics

Metaphysics

Metaphor

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-195) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Aesthetics and metaphysics I: the mimetic schema -- Aesthetics and metaphysics II: from Kant to Adorno -- Aesthetics at the limit of metaphysics: intimations of the hypersensible -- Metaphor beyond metaphysics? -- Literature: Proust, Hölderlin -- Sculpture: Chillida.

Sommario/riassunto

This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno) has consistently overlooked, such was its commitment - explicit or implicit - to mimesis and the metaphysics of truth it presupposes. De Beistegui refers to this dimension, which unfolds outside the space that stretches between the sensible and the supersensible - the space of metaphysics itself - as the hypersensible and show how the operation of art to which it corresponds is best described as metaphorical. The movement of the book, then, is from the c