Stone (Studies in Continental Thought) - Softcover

John Sallis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0253208882 ISBN 13: 9780253208880

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Stunning insights into Renaissance aesthetic theory... a rigorous and critical assessment of key moments in the Western aesthetic tradition, speaks beyond the audience of philosophers and literary critics..." -Renaissance Quarterly Stone challenges the simple opposition of philosophy and art... in a style that has the directness of sculpture." -John Llewelyn In an elegant and provocative text enhanced by photographs, John Sallis offers an important new theory of philosophy and art. He takes up the various guises and settings in which stone appears and what philosophers have said about the beauty of stone.

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Synopsis:

Stone challenges the simple opposition of philosophy and art ...in a style that has the directness of sculpture. - John Llewelyn. The relation of our vision of stone's beauty to what we say, think, and write about stone, about the way in which such vision can both empower and interrupt language, is radiantly revealed in "Stone". In an elegant and provocative text enhanced by photographs, John Sallis takes up the various guises and settings in which stone appears: in wild nature, in shelter against the elements, in the tombstones of the Jewish cemetery in Prague, in Greek temples and gothic cathedrals, and in sculpture and drama. "Stone" is critically attentive not only to what certain philosophers such as Hegel and Heidegger have said of beauty and of stone, but also to what they have written on their travels to the Alps, to the great cathedrals of Europe, or to the temples of Greece. Oriented throughout to various sites where the terrestrial beauty of stone shines forth, "Stone" draws increasingly toward theatrical presentation, toward theatre of stone.

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In an elegant and provocative text enhanced by photographs, this author takes up the various guises and settings in which stone appears: in wild nature, in shelter against the elements, in the tombstones of the Jewish cemetery in Prague, in Greek temples and Gothic cathedrals, and in sculpture and drama. Stone draws increasingly toward theatrical presentation, toward the atre of stone.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0253208882
• ISBN 13: 9780253208880
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148