Truth, beauty, and the social function of art

Journal of Chinese Philosophy

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-32

  Rockmore, Tom ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61049364250     PISSN: 03018121     EISSN: 15406253     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6253.2004.00140.x     Document Type: Article

References (32)

1. "Jous vous dois la vérité en peinture, et je vous la dirai." Letter of Paul Cezanne to Emile Bernard, dated 25 October 1905
2. cited in Jacques Derrida, La Vérite en peinture (Paris: Flammarion, 1978), p. 6
3. See Li Zehou, The Path of Beauty: A Study of Chinese Aesthetics, translated by Gong Lizeng (Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1994)
4. See Karl-Heinz Pohl, "An Intercultural Perspective on Chinese Aesthetics," in Frontiers of Transculturality in Contemporary Aesthetics; paper presented at conference held October 25-28, 2000, University of Bologna, Italy, p. 140
5. See, e.g., Iris Murdoch, The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971)
6. See Murdoch, The Fire and the Sun: Why Plato Banished the Artists, p. 31
7. See Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, translated by N. K. Smith (London: Macmillan, 1962), B 867, pp. 657-658
8. See Murdoch, The Fire and the Sun, p. 80
9. See Betty Rojtman, Black Fire on White Fire: An Essay on Jewish Hermeneutics, from Midrash to Kabbalah, translated by Steven Rendall (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998)
10. For commentary, see Moses Maimonides, The Guide of the Perplexed, translated by Shlomo Pines (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1963), I, chapter 36, pp. 82-85
11. See Exodus 20: 22-23
12. See II. Corinthians 3: 6
13. See David M. Robb and J. J. Garrison, Art in the Western World (New York: Harper and Row, 1953), p. 489
14. See Die fröhliche Wissenschaft, in Friedrich Nietzsche-Werke, edited by Karl Schlechta (Frankfurt a. M: Ullstein, 1972), II, § 374, p. 524
15. Erwin Panofsky, "Die Perspektive als 'symbolische Form'," in Vortraege der Bibliothek Warburg, 1924-1925 (Leipzig: Teubner, 1927), pp. 258-330
16. See "To Marcus Herz, February 21, 1772," in Immanuel Kant, Philosophical Correspondence, 1759-99 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967), pp. 70-76
17. Kant, Critique of Pure Reason, B xvi, p. 22
18. See Isabelle Thomas-Fogiel, Critique de la représentation, Etude sur Fichte (Paris: Vrin, 2000)
19. See J. G. Fichte, The Science of Knowledge, translated by Peter Heath and John Lachs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), p. 246
20. See G. W. F. Hegel, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, translated by A. V. Miller (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977), e.g., § 752 (pp. 454-455), and § 785 (pp. 475-476)
21. See Hegel, Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, § 209, p. 127
22. My discussion of Danto relies on Stephen Davies, "End of Art," in A Companion to Aesthetics, edited by David Cooper (Oxford: Blackwell, 1995), pp. 138-142
23. See Arthur Danto, Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art (New York: Columbia University Press, 1986)
24. "Approaching the End of Art," in The State of Art (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1987), pp. 202-218
25. "Narratives of the End of Art," in Encounters and Reflections: Art in the Historical Present (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1990)
26. See Arthur Danto, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981), p. 135
27. See Danto, The Transfiguration of the Commonplace: A Philosophy of Art, pp. 5-6
28. G. W. F. Hegel, The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Art, translated by Bernard Bosanquet (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1905)
29. reprinted in G. W. F. Hegel, On Art, Religion, Philosophy, edited by J. Glenn Gray (New York: Harper and Row, 1970), p. 34
30. See Tom Rockmore, "Lukács, Marxist Aesthetics, and Truth," in Jahrbuch der International Georg-Lukács-Gesellschaft, Bd. 5 (Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2001), pp. 139-159
31. For his general view of art, see "The Origin of the Work of Art," in Martin Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, translated by Albert Hofstadter (New York: Harper and Row), pp. 15-88
32. for his anti-Platonic view of the role of the poet, see Martin Heidegger, Hölderlins Hymnen "Germanien" und "Der Rhein", edited by Susanne Ziegler (Frankfurt a. M.: Vittorio Klostermann, 1980)