Art as the Absolute: Art's Relation to Metaphysics in Kant, Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, and Schopenhauer

by Paul Gordon

Book Overview

Art as the Absolute is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who followed after, including Fichte, Schelling, Hegel, Schopenhauer, and Nietzsche, Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem of how one can "know" the absolute in non-conceptual, non-discursive terms.

The idea of art's inherent relation to the absolute, first...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501330551
• ISBN13: 9781501330551
• Release Date: March 2017
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"