The dehumanization of art and other essays on art, culture, and literature / José Ortega y Gasset.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ortega y Gasset, José, Author.

Series:

Princeton classics.

Princeton Classics ; 89

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (219 pages).

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

A classic work on radical aesthetics by one of the great philosophers of the early twentieth century No work of philosopher and essayist José Ortega y Gasset has been more frequently cited, admired, or criticized than his response to modernism, "The Dehumanization of Art." The essay, originally published in Spanish in 1925, grappled with the newness of nonrepresentational art and sought to make it more understandable to the public. Many embraced the essay as a manifesto extolling the virtues of vanguard artists and promoting efforts to abandon the realism and the romanticism of the nineteenth century. Others took it as a denunciation of everything that was radical about the avant-garde. This Princeton Classics edition makes this essential work, along with four of Ortega's other critical essays, available in English. A new foreword by Anthony J. Cascardi considers how Ortega's philosophy remains relevant and significant in the twenty-first century.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

The dehumanization of art

Notes on the novel

On point of view

In search of Goethe from Within

The self and the other

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780691197968

0691197962

OCLC:

1112421879