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Hobbema and Heidegger

On Truth and Beauty

by Haim Gordon (Author) Rivca Gordon (Author)
©2008 Monographs VI, 146 Pages

Summary

This book shows how the beautiful landscape paintings of Meindert Hobbema, a seventeenth-century painter of the Dutch Golden Age, are in accord with the thought of Martin Heidegger, a twentieth-century philosopher, on beauty and truth. Since little is known about Hobbema’s life, this work concentrates on ideas that are central to Heidegger’s philosophy of art and beauty and the way these ideas are attuned to Hobbema’s landscapes. Heidegger holds that the beauty of a great work of art calls out from that work and is firmly linked to the disclosure of hidden truths concerning essences of beings. This book illustrates in detail that beauty and such truths indeed call out from Hobbema’s paintings.

Details

Pages
VI, 146
Publication Year
2008
ISBN (Hardcover)
9780820481685
Language
English
Keywords
Heidegger, Martin Ästhetik Hobbema Beauty Philosophy Art
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2008. VI, 146 pp.

Biographical notes

Haim Gordon (Author) Rivca Gordon (Author)

The Authors: Rivca Gordon is an independent scholar and the author, most recently, of Existential Thinking: Blessings and Pitfalls (2007). She has also co-authored six books with Haim Gordon and published articles on existential philosophy in professional journals. Haim Gordon is a full professor emeritus at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel. He has published twenty-four books in various fields as author, co-author, or editor.

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