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The arts and the definition of the human : toward a philosophical anthropology / Joseph Margolis.

By: Margolis, Joseph 1924-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, c2009Description: ix, 183 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780804759533 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780804759540 (pbk. : alk. paper).Subject(s): Painting -- Philosophy | Art -- Philosophy | Visual perception | Aesthetics | Philosophical anthropologyDDC classification: 750 Online resources: Table of contents only
Contents:
The definition of the human -- Perceiving paintings as paintings -- One and only one correct interpretation -- Toward a phenomenology of painting and literature -- Seeing-in, make-believe, transfiguration: the perception of pictorial representation -- Beauty and truth and the passing of transcendental philosophy.
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750 MAR 2009 (Browse shelf) Available

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The definition of the human -- Perceiving paintings as paintings -- One and only one correct interpretation -- Toward a phenomenology of painting and literature -- Seeing-in, make-believe, transfiguration: the perception of pictorial representation -- Beauty and truth and the passing of transcendental philosophy.

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