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The arts and the definition of the human : toward a philosophical anthropology / Joseph Margolis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Margolis, Joseph, 1924-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painting--Philosophy.
- Painting.
- Art--Philosophy.
- Art.
- Visual perception.
- Aesthetics.
- Philosophical anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (291 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In The Arts and the Definition of the Human, Margolis introduces a novel theory of the human person or self as a historical artifact and argues that important topics in the philosophy of art, pictorial representation, and the nature of interpretation make no sense when separated from a ""philosophical anthropology"" along the lines he suggests.
- Contents:
- The definition of the human
- Perceiving paintings as paintings
- One and only one correct interpretation
- Toward a phenomenology of painting and literature
- Seeing-in, make-believe, transfiguration: the perception of pictorial representation
- Beauty and truth and the passing of transcendental philosophy.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 15. Sep 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780804759533
- 0804759537
- 9780804769860
- 0804769869
- OCLC:
- 793166803
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