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Edgar Wind
(1900-71)
German/English art historian

Legenda: Oxford, 2001
£35.00 ($65.00 US)  Paperback  182pp
ISBN: 1-900755-29-7

Edgar Wind was one of the most distinguished art historians and philosophers of the twentieth century. He made crucial contributions to debates on aesthetics and on the interdisciplinary nature of cultural history involving such other leading figures as Ernst Cassirer and Erwin Panofsky. It is not always realised, however, that his early thinking was moulded by a concern with the German philosophical tradition, culminating in the analysis of the meaning and function of scientific experimentation and proof. This first edition in English of Edgar Wind’s important work Das Experiment und die Metaphysik: Zur Auflösung der kosmologischen Antinomien (1934) also carries a new introduction by Matthew Rampley, placing Wind’s philosophical thinking in context.