Artistic Truth: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure - Hardcover

Zuidervaart, Lambert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521839033 ISBN 13: 9780521839037

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521839033
• ISBN 13: 9780521839037
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296