Art’s Claim to Truth

Gianni Vattimo

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May, 2008
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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 philosophy at the University of Turin and is a renowned public intellectual and member of the European parliament. His books with Columbia University Press are Christianity, Truth, and Weakening Faith: A Dialogue (with René Girard), The Future of Religion (with Richard Rorty), Dialogue with Nietzsche, and Nihilism and Emancipation. His forthcoming book, coauthored with Santiago Zabala, is Hermeneutic Communism. Santiago Zabala is Visiting Scholar at Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of The Remains of Being and The Hermeneutic Nature of Analytic Philosophy, and editor of Weakening Philosophy, The Future of Religion, and Nihilism and Emancipation. 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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