Saturday, January 8, 2011

Hans-Georg Gadamer on Modern Art, Distance, and the Audience

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"It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art."

-Hans-Georg Gadamer

Lawrence Cahoone discusses the impact of Ernst Cassirer, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Ferdinand de Saussure on twentieth-century philosophy.

Primary Source: Truth and Method by Hans-Georg Gadamer

Secondary Source: Gadamer's Century: Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer (Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought) edited by Jeff Malpas

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