Transfigurements: On the True Sense of Art (Hardcover)

Transfigurements develops a framework for thinking about art through innovative readings of some of the most important philosophical writing on the subject by Kant Hegel and Heidegger. Sallis exposes new layers in their texts and theories while also marking their limits. By doing so his aim is to show that philosophy needs to attend to art directly. Consequently Sallis also addresses a wide range of works of art including paintings by Raphael Monet and Klee; Shakespeare s comedies; and the music of Beethoven Schubert Mahler and Tan Dun. Through these interpretations he puts forth a compelling new elaboration of the philosophy of art.