{"product_id":"the-muses-9780804727815","title":"The Muses","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Jean-Luc Nancy | Peggy Kamuf\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History \u0026amp; Surveys - Modern\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 senses--to which the plurality of the arts has most frequently been referred--and sense or meaning in general.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThroughout the five essays, Nancy's argument hinges on the culminating formulation of this relation in Hegel's Aesthetics and The Phenomenology of Spirit--art as the sensible presentation of the Idea. Demonstrating once again his renowned ability as a reader of Hegel, Nancy scrupulously and generously restores Hegel's historical argument concerning art as a thing of the past, as that which is negated by the dialectic of Spirit in the passage from aesthetic religion to revealed religion to philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47591477575831,"sku":"9780804727815","price":3272.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780804727815.webp?v=1774973301","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-muses-9780804727815","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}