Art and Truth after Plato
Tom Rockmore
Abstract
Despite its foundational role in the history of philosophy, Plato's famous argument that art does not have access to truth or knowledge is now rarely examined, in part because recent philosophers have assumed that Plato’s challenge was resolved long ago. This book argues that Plato has in fact never been satisfactorily answered—and to demonstrate that, it offers a comprehensive account of Plato’s influence through nearly the whole history of Western aesthetics. The book offers a reading of the post-Platonic aesthetic tradition as a series of responses to Plato’s position, examining a diversity ... More
Keywords: philosophy, truth, knowledge, Plato, western aesthetics, Aristotle, poetics, medieval Christians, Kant, critique of judgment
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2013 | Print ISBN-13: 9780226040028 |
| Published to Chicago Scholarship Online: September 2013 | DOI:10.7208/chicago/9780226040165.001.0001 |
