"Stunning insights into Renaissance aesthetic theory. . . a rigorous and critical assessment of key moments in the Western aesthetic tradition, speaks beyond the audience of philosophers and literary critics . . ." -Renaissance Quarterly
"Stone challenges the simple opposition of philosophy and art . . . in a style that has the directness of sculpture." -John Llewelyn
In an elegant and provocative text enhanced by photographs, John Sallis offers an important new theory of philosophy and art. He takes up the various guises and settings in which stone appears and what philosophers have said about the beauty of stone.
- ISBN10 0253208882
- ISBN13 9780253208880
- Publish Date 22 October 1994 (first published 1 October 1994)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Indiana University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 148
- Language English