Hardback. 1999. Eric Claus: Twenty-one Twentieth Century Philosophers In Bronze;

Millennium edition. By Jos de Mul, et al.

Dust jacket. Limited edition.

In this book, Claus appears to be investigating just how far he can push the tension that is so characteristic of his work. While he is still on a sculptor's familiar territory with the series of portrait medallions of twentieth-century philosophers, in the sculptures which accompany them he has attempted to represent the body of ideas of the thinkers depicted on the medallions. This could be called a true tour de force, because few things are further from the solid tangibility of the sculpture than the abstract, intangible body of ideas of the philosopher. The fact that the artist Claus has been so successful in capturing the complex thinking of the twentieth-century philosophers in images is witness to his affinity with the world of philosophy.
Those included are Friedrich Nietzsche, Henri Bergson, Edmund Husserl, Bertrand Russell, Karl Jaspers, Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Martin Heidegger, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rudolf Carnap, Karl Popper, Theodor Adorno, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hannah Arendt, Emmanuel Levinas, Hector-Neri Castaneda, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Jurgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty and Paulin Hountondji.