Between Word and Image: Heidegger, Klee, and Gadamer on Gesture and Genesis

Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato. Identifying pivotal moments in the history of philosophy, Dennis J. Schmidt develops the question of philosophy's regard of the image in thinking by considering painting--where the image most clearly calls attention to itself as an image. Focusing on Heidegger and the work of Paul Klee, Schmidt pursues larger issues in the relationship between word, image, and truth. As he investigates alternative ways of thinking about truth through word and image, Schmidt shows how the form of art can indeed possess the capacity to change its viewers.

Author: Dennis J. Schmidt
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 11/14/2012
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9780253006202

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2014

About the Author

Dennis J. Schmidt is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and German at Pennsylvania State University. He is author of On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life (IUP, 2001).