The Muses

by Jean-Luc Nancy

Book Overview

This book, by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers, begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones: Why are there several arts and not just one? This question focuses on the point of maximal tension between the philosophical tradition and contemporary thinking about the arts: the relation between the plurality of the human senses--to which the plurality of the arts has most frequently...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804727805
• ISBN13: 9780804727808
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"