ART + OBJECTS

In this book, the founder of object-oriented ontology develops his view that aesthetics is the central discipline of philosophy. Whe reas science must attempt to grasp an object in terms of its observable qualities, philosophy and art cannot proceed in this way bec ause they don't have direct access to their objects. Hence philosophy shares the same fate as art in being compelled to communicate indirectly, allusively, or elliptically, rather than in the clear propositional terms that are often taken wrongly to be the sol e stuff of ...[Read more]