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Word, image, and aesthetics of ethical life

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Genesis of the Question
1. Unfolding the Question: An Excentric History
2. Heidegger and Klee: An Attempt at a New Beginning
3. On Word, Image, and Gesture: Another Attempt at a Beginning
Afterword: The Question of Genesis for Now
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Dennis J. Schmidt is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and German at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life (IUP, 2001).

Reviews

"Convincingly contends that Gadamer's work allows us to extensively elaborate what Klee's work would have entailed for Heidegger, and, even more significantly, its importance for thought about art after him. Probing and lucid." Stephen H. Watson, University of Notre Dame