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Author Rockmore, Tom, 1942- author.

Title Art and truth after Plato / Tom Rockmore
Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents Plato and Platonism on poetry, art, and truth -- Aristotle on the theory of forms, imitative poetry, and art in general -- Art and the transcendent, or Christian Platonic and anti-Platonic art -- Kant and German idealist aesthetics -- Hegel on art and spiritual truth -- Marx, Marxism, and aesthetic realism -- On the theory and practice of representation in the twentieth century
Summary Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato's famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato's challenge was resolved long ago. In Art and Truth after Plato, Tom Rockmore argues that Plato has in fact never been satisfactorily answered-and to demonstrate that, he offers a comprehensive account of Plato's influence through nearly the whole history of Western aesthetics. Rockmore offers a cogent reading of the post-Platonic aesthetic tra
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Mimesis in art.
Imitation in art.
Truthfulness and falsehood in art.
Aesthetics.
Art -- Philosophy.
mimesis.
ART -- General.
Aesthetics
Art -- Philosophy
Imitation in art
Mimesis in art
Truthfulness and falsehood in art
Rezeption
Kunst
Wahrheit
Ästhetik
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226040165
022604016X