Art as the Absolute

<i>Art as the Absolute</i> is a literary and philosophical investigation into the meaning of art and its claims to truth. Exploring in particular the writings of Kant and those who followed after including Fichte Schelling Hegel Schopenhauer and Nietzsche Paul Gordon contends that art solves the problem of how one can know+? the absolute in non-conceptual non-discursive terms.<br/><br/>The idea of art's inherent relation to the absolute first explicitly rendered by Kant is examined in major works from 1790 to 1823. The first and last chapters on Plato and Nietzsche respectively deal with precursors and post-cursors+? of this idea. Gordon shows and seeks to reddress the lack of attention to this idea after Hegel as well as in contemporary reassessments of this period. <i>Art as the Absolute</i> will be of interest to students and scholars studying aesthetics from both a literary and philosophical perspective.