MUSES, THE

A truly exhilarating set of philosophical reflections on art and aesthetics. From the caves of Lascaux to Caravaggio’s Death of the Virgin to the postmodern question of the marketplace and the ‘end’ of art, Nancy masterfully explicates the thresholdrole art plays in the philosophical distinctions between the sensory and the sensible, life and death, presentation and representation. Art is also compellingly shown to be the foundational category for any concept of religion, technology, or even ‘humanity.