Between word and image : Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on gesture and genesis / Dennis J. Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schmidt, Dennis J.

Series:

Studies in Continental thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Image (Philosophy).

Aesthetics.

Thought and thinking.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Klee, Paul, 1879-1940.

Klee, Paul.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg.

Physical Description:

x, 187 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on gesture and genesis

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]

Summary:

Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato. Identifying pivotal moments in the history of philosophy, Dennis J. Schmidt develops the question of philosophy's regard of the image by considering painting-where the image most clearly calls attention to itself as an image. Focusing on the philosophies of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer and the art of Paul Klee, Schmidt pursues larger issues in the relationship between word, image, and truth. As he investigates alternative ways of thinking about truth through word and image, Schmidt shows how the form of art can indeed possess the capacity to change its viewers.

Contents:

Introduction: the genesis of the question

Unfolding the question: an excentric history

Heidegger and Klee: an attempt at a new beginning

On word, image, and gesture: another attempt at a beginning

Afterword: the question of genesis for now.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [173]-179) and index.

ISBN:

9780253006189

025300618X

9780253006202

0253006201

OCLC:

752072613