The Muses Nancy Kamuf Hardback MK – Stanford University Press 9780804727808

The MusesAuthor(s): Jean-Luc Nancy, Peggy Kamuf\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804727808, 978-0804727808\nSynopsis\nThis book, by one of the most challenging contemporary thinkers, begins with an essay that introduces the principal concern sustained in the four succeeding ones: Why are there several arts and not just one? This question focuses on the point of maximal tension between the philosophical tradition and contemporary thinking about the arts: the relation between the plurality of the human sensesto which the plurality of the arts has most frequently been referredand sense or meaning in general.\n\n Throughout the five essays, Nancy's argument hinges on the culminating formulation of this relation in Hegel's Aesthetics and The Phenomenology of Spiritart as the sensible presentation of the Idea. Demonstrating once again his renowned ability as a reader of Hegel, Nancy scrupulously and gen.