Gadamers Hermeneutical Aesthetics: Art as a Performative, Dynamic, Communal Eve [Paperback]

Introduction

Chapter 1: Kantian Resonances and Dissonances

Chapter 2: Hegelian Resonances and Dissonances (and A Heideggerian Coda)

Chapter 3: Romare Beardens Collages and Arts Address: On World De-fabrication and Reconfiguration

Chapter 4: Banksy, Street Art, and A Benjaminian Coda

Chapter 5: Its All About (Hermeneutical) Movement: Play, Leeway, Difference, and a Coda on Free Jazz

This book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamers reflections on art and our experience of art. It examines fundamental themes in Gadamers hermeneutical aesthetics such as play, festival, symbol, contemporaneity, enactment, arts performative ontology, and hermeneutical identity.

By placing Gadamers hermeneutical aesthetics in critical dialogue with both key aesthetic theories of the philosophical tradition as well as with important contemporary artists and art movements, Nielsens well-conceived study develops a vibrant bridge between past and present that clearly demonstrates the continued relevance of Gadamers hermeneutics for our comprehension of the experience and understanding of art.

 Daniel L. Tate, St. Bonaventure University, USA

Cynthia Nielsons study of the historical impact of Kants aesthetics on Gadamers hermeneutical aesthetics and of the application of philosophical hermeneutics to contemporary music and art practice, has transformative implications. By revealing the ontological frameworks which enable the works of Bearden and Bansky to be so effective, her book demonstrates the contemporaneousness of Gadamers hermeneutics. This volume is a notable achievement. It offers a doubled disclosure: whilst concretising Gadamers philosophical l3�