Between Word and Image

Engagement with the image has played a decisive role in the formulation of the very idea of philosophy since Plato. Tracing pivotal moments in philosophy's regard of the image in thinking, Dennis J. Schmidt develops the question of the image by focusing on painting -- where the image most clearly calls attention to itself as an image. Focusing on Heidegger and the work of Paul Klee, Schmidt pursues thinking about larger issues in the relationship between word, image, and truth. As he investigates alternative ways of thinking about truth through word and image, Schmidt shows how the form of art can indeed possess the capacity to change its viewers

Dennis J. Schmidt is Liberal Arts Professor of Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and German at The Pennsylvania State University. He is author of On Germans and Other Greeks: Tragedy and Ethical Life (IUP, 2001).