Hobbema and Heidegger
On Truth and Beauty
Will be published approx. on 23. July 2008
Book
Hardback
144 pages
978-0-8204-8168-5 (ISBN)
Description
This book shows how the beautiful landscape paintings of Meindert Hobbema, a seventeenth-century painter of the Dutch Golden Age, are in accord with the thought of Martin Heidegger, a twentieth-century philosopher, on beauty and truth. Since little is known about Hobbema's life, this work concentrates on ideas that are central to Heidegger's philosophy of art and beauty and the way these ideas are attuned to Hobbema's landscapes. Heidegger holds that the beauty of a great work of art calls out from that work and is firmly linked to the disclosure of hidden truths concerning essences of beings. This book illustrates in detail that beauty and such truths indeed call out from Hobbema's paintings.
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Persons
The Authors: Rivca Gordon is an independent scholar and the author, most recently, of Existential Thinking: Blessings and Pitfalls (2007). She has also co-authored six books with Haim Gordon and published articles on existential philosophy in professional journals.
Haim Gordon is a full professor emeritus at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel. He has published twenty-four books in various fields as author, co-author, or editor.
Haim Gordon is a full professor emeritus at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer Sheva, Israel. He has published twenty-four books in various fields as author, co-author, or editor.