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The unavoidable question of art

Dennis J. Schmidt: Between word and image: Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on gesture and genesis. Indiana University Press, 2013, 188 pp, +20 pp, ill, ISBN: 0253006201

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Notes

  1. Cf. Hans-Georg Gadamer (1998).

  2. See especially “Dennis J. Schmidt (2005); “On the Idiom of Truth and the Movement of Life: Some Remarks on the Task of Hermeneutics”, Günter Figal (2011).

  3. Martin Heidegger (1994).

  4. Günter Seubold (1994). Cited in Between Word and Image, 91 and 92, respectively.

  5. See Figal, Günter (2010); forthcoming in English as Aesthetics as Phenomenology: The Appearance of Things (Indiana University Press, 2014). Full disclosure: I am the translator of this volume.

  6. See esp. Sallis, John (1998).

  7. Paul Klee (1928). Cited in Between Word and Image, 81.

  8. This phenomenon is finding attention far beyond continental aesthetics. For a contemporary psychological elaboration, cf. Milan et al. (2013).

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Veith, J. The unavoidable question of art. Cont Philos Rev 47, 233–238 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11007-014-9295-z

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