In this book one of Italy8217s most important and original contemporaryphilosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He probes themeaning and hist... » 

In this book one of Italy8217s most important and original contemporaryphilosophers considers the status of art in the modern era. He probes themeaning and historical consequences of the indefinite continuation of art inwhat Hegel called a 147selfannulling8221 mode in the process offeringan imaginative reinterpretation of the history of aesthetics from Kant toHeidegger. «