The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts
The Question of Style in Philosophy and the Arts
James McAllister, Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
Renée van de Vall, Rijksuniversiteit Limburg, The Netherlands
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USDThe eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed a change in the perception of the arts and of philosophy. In the arts this transition occurred around 1800, with, for instance, the breakdown of Vitruvianism in architecture, while in philosophy the foundationalism of which Descartes and Spinoza were paradigmatic representatives, which presumed that philosophy and the sciences possessed a method of ensuring the demonstration of truths, was undermined by the idea, asserted by Nietzsche and Wittgenstein, that there exist alternative styles of enquiry among which a choice is open. The essays in this book examine the circumstances, features, and consequences of this historical transition, exploring in particular new aspects and instances of the inter-relatedness of content and its formal representation in both the arts and philosophy.
- Contains historical material
- A welcome interdisciplinary approach to the debate
- Wide range of contributors
Reviews & endorsements
"...this book reminds us that style has always played a role in philosophical writing despite claims to the contrary. Not only does it show that philosophy has influenced the arts, but that the arts might hold the key to understanding style in philosophical writing." Jeffrey R. DiLeo, Philosophy and Literature
Product details
June 2010Paperback
9780521154413
258 pages
234 × 156 × 14 mm
0.35kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. The style of method: repression and representation in the genealogy of philosophy B. Lang
- 2. Style in painting R. Wollheim
- 3. Stylistic strategies in William Hogarth's theatrical satires M. K. Lindberg
- 4. Style in architecture J. Mordaunt Crook
- 5. Par le style on atteint au sublime: the meaning of the term style in French architectural theory of the late eighteenth century C. A. Van Eck
- 6. Aesthetic forms of philosophising L. Wiesing
- 7. Style and community S. Kemal
- 8. Metaphor and paradox in Toqueville's analysis of democracy F. R. Ankersmit
- 9. The formation of styles: science and the applied arts J. W. McAllister
- 10. Beyond the mannered: the question of style in philosophy or questionable styles of philosophy N. Davey
- 11. Style and subjective agency C. Altieri
- 12. Style and innocence: lost, regained, and lost again? D. Franck
- Appendix
- Index.
