TY  - BOOK
AU  - Małgorzata Hołda
PY  - 2021
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 2364-2882
SN  - 9783631850510
TI  - On Beauty and Being: Hans-Georg Gadamer’s and Virginia Woolf’s Hermeneutics of the Beautiful
DO  - 10.3726/b18300
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1059236
N2  - The book is an exploration of the affinities between Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and Virginia Woolf’s philosophy of beauty and Being embodied in her oeuvre. The study addresses beauty as a mode of being rather than a mere adornment of human existence. Tracing Plato’s legacy in the two authors, it espouses the proximity of truth and beauty, and argues for beauty’s restorative capacity discerned in the repetitive patterns of the universe. Showing the poetics of Gadamer and Woolf as mutually interpenetrating, it encourages to see the beauty of the poetic word as a gateway to Being. This meditation on beauty and Being contests the prevailing ways of thinking about the (in)dependent fields of literature and philosophy.
KW  - aesthetics, art, modernism, ontology, Plato’s philosophy, poetic novel
LA  - English
ER  -