Between Word and Image: Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on Gesture and Genesis

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Indiana University Press, 2013 - Philosophy - 187 pages

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 in thinking by considering painting—where the image most clearly calls attention to itself as an image. Focusing on Heidegger and the work 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

The Genesis of the Question
1
Unfolding the Question An Excentric History
12
Heidegger and Klee An Attempt at a New Beginning
67
On Word Image and Gesture Another Attempt at a Beginning
106
The Question of Genesis for Now
141
Notes
151
Bibliography
173
Index
181
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Dennis J. Schmidt is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and German at the Pennsylvania State University. He is author of On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life (IUP, 2001).

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