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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784309603321

Autore

Zuidervaart Lambert

Titolo

Artistic truth : aesthetics, discourse, and imaginative disclosure / / Lambert Zuidervaart

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2004

ISBN

1-107-16240-8

1-280-70322-9

0-511-23103-2

0-511-23178-4

0-511-22941-0

0-511-30870-1

0-511-49839-X

0-511-23025-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 277 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

111/.85

Soggetti

Truth (Aesthetics)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-270) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Hermeneutical matrix. Beardsley's denial ; Reciprocations ; Kant revisited -- Constructive clearings. Truth as disclosure ; Imaginative disclosure ; Artistic truth -- Linguistic turns. Logical positivist dispute ; Goodman's nominalism ; Woltertstorff's realism ; Aesthetic transformations.

Sommario/riassunto

It is unfashionable to talk about artistic truth. Yet the issues traditionally addressed under that term have not disappeared. Indeed, questions concerning the role of the artist in society, the relationship between art and knowledge and the validity of cultural interpretation have intensified. Lambert Zuidervaart challenges intellectual fashions. He proposes a new critical hermeneutics of artistic truth that engages with both analytic and continental philosophies and illuminates the contemporary cultural scene. People turn to the arts as a way of finding orientation in their lives, communities and institutions. But philosophers, hamstrung by their own theories of truth, have been unsuccessful in accounting for this common feature in our lives. This



book portrays artistic truth as a process of imaginative disclosure in which expectations of authenticity, significance and integrity prevail. Understood in this way, truth becomes central to the aesthetic and social value of the arts.