Art Without Borders : A Philosophical Exploration of Art and Humanity


Ben-Ami. Scharfstein
Bok Engelsk 2009 · Electronic books.
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Utgitt
Chicago, IL : : University of Chicago Press, , 2009.
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1 online resource (558 p.)
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Description based upon print version of record.. - CONTENTS; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration; 1 AN OPEN AESTHETICS; 2 SELFLESS TRADITION; 3 EGOCENTRIC INNOVATION; 4 INTERSECTING WORLDS AND IDENTITIES; 5 THE COMMON UNIVERSE OF AESTHETIC DISCOURSE; Notes; Index. - People all over the world make art and take pleasure in it, and they have done so for millennia. But acknowledging that art is a universal part of human experience leads us to some big questions: Why does it exist? Why do we enjoy it? And how do the world's different art traditions relate to art and to each other?Art Without Borders is an extraordinary exploration of those questions, a profound and personal meditation on the human hunger for art and a dazzling synthesis of the whole range of inquiry into its significance. Esteemed thinker Ben-Ami Scharfstein's encycl
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0226736091. - 9780226736099

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