Art’s Claim to Truth

Gianni Vattimo; Edited by Santiago Zabala and Translated by Luca D’Isanto

May, 2008
Cloth, 216 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13850-5
$29.50 / £17.50

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Hermeneutic Consequence of Art’s Ontological Bearing, by Santiago Zabala

Part I. Aesthetics

1. Beauty and Being in Ancient Aesthetics

2. Toward an Ontological Aesthetics

3. The Ontological Vocation of Twentieth-Century Poetics

4. Art, Feeling, and Originality in Heidegger’s Aesthetics

Part II. Hermeneutics

5. Pareyson: From Aesthetics to Ontology

6. From Phenomenological Aesthetics to Ontology of Art

7. Critical Methods and Hermeneutic Philosophy

Part III. Truth

8. Aesthetics and Hermeneutics

9. Aesthetics and Hermeneutics in Hans-Georg Gadamer

10. The Work of Art as the Setting to Work of Truth

11. The Truth That Hurts

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Aesthetics
• Continental/Feminist Philosophy

Series

• Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts

About the Author

Gianni Vattimo teaches hermeneutic philosophy at the University of Turin and is a renowned public intellectual and former member of the European parliament. His books with Columbia University Press are After the Death of God, Dialogue with Nietzsche, The Future of Religion (with Richard Rorty), Nihilism and Emancipation, and After Christianity. Santiago Zabala is an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow at Potsdam University Institute of Philosophy. He is the author of The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy: A Study of Ernst Tugendhat and The Remains of Being (forthcoming), and editor of Weakening Philosophy and of Vattimo's Nihilism and Emancipation and The Future of Religion. Luca D'Isanto is a translator, editor, and writer of numerous publications on the religious and political turn in postmodern thought.

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