Between Word and Image: Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on Gesture and Genesis (Studies in Continental Thought) - Softcover

Schmidt, Dennis J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253006201 ISBN 13: 9780253006202

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato. Identifying pivotal moments in the history of philosophy, Dennis J. Schmidt develops the question of philosophy's regard of the image in thinking by considering painting―where the image most clearly calls attention to itself as an image. Focusing on Heidegger and the work of Paul Klee, Schmidt pursues larger issues in the relationship between word, image, and truth. As he investigates alternative ways of thinking about truth through word and image, Schmidt shows how the form of art can indeed possess the capacity to change its viewers.

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Review:

If anything, the most wonderful aspect of this book is just how much its tone captures indirectly the very texture of its thematized phenomenological challenge. Schmidt manages not only to raise a question, but to attune the reader to the sheer fact of gesture in painting. Source: Continental Philosophy Review

Following on the steps of Continental philosophers such as Nietzsche, Heidegger, and particularly Gadamer, Schmidt aims to show that artistic images can open on an experience of truth quite distinct from, yet just as valuable as, that occasioned by conceptual knowledge. 72.2 May 2014 Source: Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism

San Filippo is well-read in feminist and queer theory, and the book is sprinkled with ideas from those fields, which makes this most suitable for graduate-level reading. It can, however, serve as undergraduate coursework for students with a solid background in those subjects. . . . Highly recommended. Source: Choice

Review:

Convincingly contends that Gadamer's work allows us to extensively elaborate what Klee's work would have entailed for Heidegger, and , even more significantly, its importance for thought about art after him. Probing and lucid. Author: Stephen H. Watson Source: University of Notre Dame

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0253006201
• ISBN 13: 9780253006202
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 200