This book proposes that aesthetics begin not with concepts of being orsemblance but with a concept of appearing. Seel examines the existential andcultural meani... » 

This book proposes that aesthetics begin not with concepts of being orsemblance but with a concept of appearing. Seel examines the existential andcultural meaning of aesthetic experience. In doing so he brings aesthetics andphilosophy of art together again which in continental as well as analyticalthinking have been more and more separated in the recent decades. «