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Author Davey, Nicholas, 1950- author.

Title Unfinished worlds : hermeneutics, aesthetics and gadamer / Nicholas Davey.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Crosscurrents
Crosscurrents.
Summary By concentrating on the experience of meaning, Nicholas Davey shows how Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics transforms aesthetics into a mode of attentive practice. Gadamer's poetics has deep implications for all of the humanities, and how we can understand the meaning poetry, art, literary, history and theology.
Contents Title Page; Imprint; Contents; Acknowledgements; Series Editor's Preface; Introduction: Images of Movement; 1. Hermeneutics and Aesthetics: Contextual Issues; 2. Gadamer's Re-Orientation of Aesthetics; 3. Aesthetic Attentiveness and the Question of Distanciation; 4. Theoros and Spectorial Participation; 5. Presentation, Appearance and Likeness; 6. Art and the Art of Language; 7. The Redemptive Image; Bibliography; Index.
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Subject Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002 -- Aesthetics.
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002.
Aesthetics.
Poetics -- History -- 20th century.
Poetics.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Davey, Nicholas, 1950- Unfinished worlds 9780748686223 (OCoLC)867926565
ISBN 9780748686230 (electronic book)
0748686231 (electronic book)
9780748686223
0748686223