Hornist Arthur C. Brooks

In questo suo ultimo volume, uscito pochi mesi prima della sua scomparsa, il famoso critico Arthur C. Danto risponde alla fondamentale e complessa domanda “Che cos’è l’arte?”. Monografia filosofica e riflessione biografica allo stesso tempo, la raccolta di saggi che compongono il volume vuole confutare la diffusa interpretazione di arte come “concetto indefinibile” per individuarne invece le proprietà e i significati universali. Rifacendosi al pensiero filosofico di Descartes, Kant e Hegel, Danto supera il concetto estetico e conclude che l’opera d’arte è sempre definita da due elementi fondamentali, il significato e la sua rappresentazione materica, a cui si aggiunge il contributo dello spettatore, l’interpretazione.

After the success of 2001: A Space Odyssey, Clarke became perhaps the best known living Sci-Fi writer in the world. Using his inherent sense of humor and personal flair for adventure, Clarke combines the worlds of science and literature. A Meeting with Medusa is a science fiction novella by Arthur C. Clarke. It was originally published in 1972 and has since been included in several collections of Clarke's writings.

Earthlight is one of Arthur C. Clarke's earlier works, dating back to 1955. It is an expansion to novel length of a short story that he had published four years earlier. It is a science fiction adventure story set on the moon, where a government agent is looking for a suspected spy at a major observatory on the moon. The context is strong tension between Earth (which controls the moon) and independent settlers elsewhere in the solar system.