On Beauty and Being: Hans-Georg Gadamer’s and Virginia Woolf’s Hermeneutics of the Beautiful
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- ISBN 9783631830185
- Weight: 471g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 26 Apr 2021
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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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.
Małgorzata Hołda, Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Łódź, Poland. PhD in British literature, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń; PhD in philosophy, The Pontifical University of John Paul II, Kraków. Junior Associate Fellow of the International Institute for Hermeneutics.
