Tuesday, May 30, 2006
(10:58 PM) | Adam Kotsko:
Aesthetical Inquiry
In The Muses, Nancy does a lot of work on the cave paintings at Lascaux -- Plato's allegory of the cave is interpreted as a memory of this initial moment of painting in the cave, the tracing of hands on the cave wall is given significant attention, etc.My inquiry is simple: Is there anyone else who is doing anything similar with these cave paintings, that is, taking them seriously as art -- even as determinative in some way for aesthetics?
(I've mentioned this before, but The Muses is a really nice little book, and it also contains a lot of helpful expositions of some of the primary threads of Nancy's thought -- for instance, my previously confessed occasional despair at understanding what he means by "sense" has been calmed significantly by reviewing this volume.)
