Aesthetics After Metaphysics

<p>This book focuses on a dimension of art which the philosophical tradition (from Plato to Hegel and even Adorno) has consistently overlooked such was its commitment - explicit or implicit - to mimesis and the metaphysics of truth it presupposes. De Beistegui refers to this dimension which unfolds outside the space that stretches between the sensible and the supersensible - the space of metaphysics itself - as the <em>hypersensible</em> and show how the <em>operation</em> of art to which it corresponds is best described as <em>metaphorical</em>. The movement of the book then is from the classical or metaphysical aesthetics of mimesis (Part One) to the aesthetics of the hypersensible and metaphor (Part Two).</p>