Crescent moon over the rational: philosophical interpretations of Paul Klee

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Interpreting Klee: fusing the architectonic and the poetic -- On the withdrawal of the beautiful: Adorno's and Merleau-Ponty's readings of Klee -- Gadamer, Benjamin, aesthetic modernism, and the rehabilitation of allegory: the relevance of Klee -- Of Sartre, Klee, surrealism, and philosophy: toward a nonprosaic conception of consciousness -- Heidegger, Klee's turn, and the origin of the work of art -- Fiscourse/digure: of nomadism, the specter of Oedipus, and the remnants of the sublime -- The rapture of sensuousness: color possesses me-- I am a painter.;This work reveals an evolving theoretical constellation of interpretations and their questions that address and continually renew Klee's rich legacies. Interpreting Klee: fusing the architectonic and the poetic -- On the withdrawal of the beautiful: Adorno's and Merleau-Ponty's readings of Klee -- Gadamer, Benjamin, aesthetic modernism, and the rehabilitation of allegory: the relevance of Klee -- Of Sartre, Klee, surrealism, and philosophy: toward a nonprosaic conception of consciousness -- Heidegger, Klee's turn, and the origin of the work of art -- Fiscourse/digure: of nomadism, the specter of Oedipus, and the remnants of the sublime -- The rapture of sensuousness: color possesses me-- I am a painter.