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Title: Placing Aesthetics: Reflections on the Philosophic Tradition (Series in Continental Thought, 26) by Robert E. Wood ISBN: 0-8214-1281-7 Publisher: Ohio University Press Pub. Date: 01 February, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Comment: Dr. Wood is the quintessence of the philosopher who thinks the thoughts comtemporaneous to his own era and his personal "appearance" in history. At the same time, Wood engages the entire philosophic tradition, thereby exposing his Hegelian sensibility while concurrently flushing out the aesthetic perspective of the mainstays of that tradition. To one not tuned in to the aesthetic, Dr. Wood's "Placing Aesthetics" enlivens it and forces it into one's psyche. For those already aesthetically inclined, Wood's treatise repositions the aesthetic to its rightful place of centrality relative to Western speculative thought and to man's very existence. Wood's identification of the "heart" as the ground of the aesthetic, as that space between the Now of sensation and the inextricable reference to the Whole thru the notion of Being, cleanses the doors of one's aesthetic perception from Plato to Heidegger, and major thinkers in between. Wood's insistence that one attend to the Whole, while not neglecting the nature of each within the Whole, is a clarion call to all of us to strive harder, to pursue longer, to delve deeper into the meaning of It All. In the concluding section of "Placing Aesthetics", Wood surpasses Nietzsche's "woman's aesthetics" by incorporating an intriguing presentation and analysis of his own sculptural efforts in a critical yet illuminating fashion. Dr. Wood's "Placing Aesthetics" is a must read and re-read for both the professional Philosopher and the novice thinker.