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Title: Pleasingly Attenuated Husserliana, But Weak on Art History
Review: You have to have studied Husserl at one point in life to quite appreciate some of the evolved and attenuated rhetoric and conceptual analysis of transcendence contained herein, all having its genesis in the author of Logische Untersuchungen and his critique of psychologism. All the same, this looks pretty good. But it is a bit surprisingly weak on cultural or art history. On p. 278 the author asserts that in the Renaissance Tapestry artisans, who he calls "weavers" were considered mere "imitators". I think he is pretty misinformed about critical art history, and the pre-eminence of tapestry over "cartoons" which sadly were often lost because they were of lesser value. He has it the wrong way around. As in so much in religion, the devil and the angels are in the details, and the very arch style of Catholic reasoning often misses what simply, actually went on in history. That raises question of truth, of course, but that is another matter.
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