Art and the Form of Life takes a classic theme—philosophy as the art of living—and gives it a contemporary twist. The book examines a series of watershed mo

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Considers the problem of stylistic change in art, arguing that art is not reducible to external political, social, or economic determinants

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"The text is at once a meditation on theories of form and an essay on the painter Gerhard Richter as a philosophical pragmatist. Richter serves as the inspirati