Table of Contents:
  • Beauty and being in ancient aesthetics
  • Toward an ontological aesthetics
  • The ontological vocation of twentieth-century poetics
  • Art, feeling, and originality in Heidegger's aesthetics
  • Pareyson: from aesthetics to ontology
  • From phenomenological aesthetics to ontology of art
  • Critical methods and hermeneutic philosophy
  • Aesthetics and hermeneutics
  • Aesthetics and hermeneutics in Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • The work of art as the setting to work of truth
  • The truth that hurts.