Artistic Truth: Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure

295 Pages·2004·1.46 MB·English

by  Lambert Zuidervaart

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ArtisticTruth
Aesthetics,Discourse,andImaginativeDisclosure
It is unfashionable to talk about artistic truth. Yet the issues tradi-
tionally addressed under that term have not disappeared. Indeed,
questionsconcerningtheroleoftheartistinsociety,therelationship
between art and knowledge, and the validity of cultural interpreta-
tionhaveintensified.LambertZuidervaartchallengescurrentintel-
lectualfashions.Heproposesanewcriticalhermeneuticsofartistic
truth that engages with both analytic and continental philosophies
andilluminatesthecontemporaryculturalscene.
Peopleturntotheartsasawayoffindingorientationintheirlives,
communities,andinstitutions.Butphilosophers,hamstrungbytheir
owntheoriesoftruth,havebeenunsuccessfulinaccountingforthis
common feature in our lives. This book portrays artistic truth as a
processofimaginativedisclosureinwhichexpectationsofauthentic-
ity, significance, and integrity prevail. Understood in this way, truth
becomescentraltotheaestheticandsocialvalueofthearts.
Lambert Zuidervaart is Professor of Philosophy at the Institute for
ChristianStudies,Toronto,andanAssociateMemberoftheGraduate
FacultyintheDepartmentofPhilosophyattheUniversityofToronto.
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Artistic Truth
Aesthetics, Discourse, and Imaginative Disclosure
LAMBERT ZUIDERVAART
InstituteforChristianStudies,Toronto
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Contents
Preface page ix
ListofAbbreviations xiii
Introduction:CriticalHermeneutics 1
i.1 Locations 2
i.2 Directions 7
i.3 BorderCrossings 11
part i. hermeneutical matrix
1 Beardsley’sDenial 17
1.1 MeaningandMetaphor 19
1.2 ContestedTheories 24
1.3 LiteraryPredications 29
2 Reciprocations 34
2.1 ExistentialAffirmation 35
2.2 PostmetaphysicalDeconstruction 46
2.3 TowardReconstruction 51
3 KantRevisited 55
3.1 AestheticValidity 56
3.2 CulturalOrientation 65
3.3 ArtTalk 68
part ii. constructive clearings
4 TruthasDisclosure 77
4.1 Heidegger’sDisclosedness 79
4.2 AssertionandInterpretation 84
4.3 CorrespondenceandDisclosure 90
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5 ImaginativeDisclosure 101
5.1 Heidegger’sAnti-Aesthetics 102
5.2 ArtandVocation 109
5.3 CogencyandTruth 113
6 ArtisticTruth 118
6.1 CriticalAestheticTheory 119
6.2 Authenticity,Significance,Integrity 127
6.3 ArtTalkandArtisticTruth 134
part iii. linguistic turns
7 LogicalPositivistDispute 143
7.1 EmotivismversusPropositionism 145
7.2 PropositionalActs 151
7.3 MeaningandIntegrity 157
8 Goodman’sNominalism 162
8.1 ArtasSymbolSystem 163
8.2 TruthwithoutTruthBearers 171
8.3 AppropriatenessandSignificance 175
9 Wolterstorff’sRealism 182
9.1 FictiveWorldProjection 183
9.2 PropositionswithoutImport 191
9.3 ActualityandAuthenticity 196
10 AestheticTransformations 203
10.1 TracesofTruth 204
10.2 FootprintsintheSand 213
Notes 219
Bibliography 259
Index 271