The Fate of Art

by J.M. Bernstein

Book Overview

This original and wide-ranging book, now available in paperback, is a major contribution to contemporary philosophy. Bernstein focuses on the work of four key thinkers - Kant, Heidegger, Derrida and Adorno - and provides a powerful new interpretation of their writings on art, aesthetics and politics.Bernstein argues that our experience of art today is conditioned by the loss of the truth-function of art: with the growth of modern science and technological...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745604064
• ISBN13: 9780745604060
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Blackwell Pub
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.74 lbs.