- Published: 24 January 2023
- ISBN: 9780262544146
- Imprint: MIT Press Academic
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $85.00
This Great Allegory
On World-Decay and World-Opening in the Work of Art
- Published: 24 January 2023
- ISBN: 9780262544146
- Imprint: MIT Press Academic
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 336
- RRP: $85.00
“I can readily see the book as attracting a broad range of readers from literary and philosophical scholars to more general audiences interested in how the arts continue to affect, interrogate and displace conventional understandings of present and inherited cultures. This Great Allegory, therefore, is sure to have an important and lasting impact in the fields of literary studies, aesthetics, the history of philosophy, cultural studies, and related areas of research. Gerhard’s book, moreover, is fairly unique. I can think of no recent title that covers
the same ground, and certainly none that does so with the same élan and intellectual flair.”
—Professor John Hamilton, Harvard University