Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, & the Visual Arts

by John Shannon Hendrix and Liana Girolami Cheney

Neoplatonic Aesthetics: Music, Literature, and the Visual Arts explores the idea of a Neoplatonic aesthetic, a philosophy of the arts based on the writings of Plato and the Neoplatonists - principally Plotinus, Proclus, Pseudo-Dionysius, Nicolas Cusanus, and Marsilio Ficino - and more contemporary philosophers - Stephen MacKenna, Iris Murdoch, Denman Ross, Jacques Derrida, and Hans Georg Gadamer. This book examines the artistic production of figures...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820471119
• ISBN13: 9780820471112
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"