Robert Pfaller

Interpassivity

The Aesthetics of Delegated Enjoyment

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Produktbeschreibung

Robert Pfaller advances a general theory of interpassivity as the wish for delegated consumption and enjoyment in both art and in everyday life, tackling a vast range of phenomena: culture, art, sports and religion.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 190mm x 134mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 182g
• ISBN-13: 9781474422932
• ISBN-10: 1474422934
• Artikelnr.: 47524416

Autorenporträt

Robert Pfaller is Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at the University of Art and Industrial Design of Linz, Austria. His publications are mainly in German but his most recent book is in English The Pleasure Principle in Culture: Illusions without Owners (Verso, 2014). His German books include Umazano Sveto in Cisti Um. (Ljubljana: Analecta, 2009), Wofuer es sich zu leben lohnt. Elemente materialistischer Philosophie (Fischer, 2011), Das schmutzige Heilige und die reine Vernunft. Symptome der Gegenwartskultur (Fischer, 2008), Die Ästhetik der Interpassivität. (Hamburg: philo fine arts, 2008) and Die Illusionen der anderen. Über das Lustprinzip in der Kultur (Suhrkamp, 2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Interpassivity Today
1. The Work of Art that Observes Itself
2. The Parasites of Parricide. Living Through the Other when Killing the
Father: Interpassivity in Brothers Karamazov
3. Little Gestures of Disappearance. Interpassivity and the Theory of
Ritual
4. Interpassivity and Misdemeanours. The Art of Thinking In Examples and
the Zizekian Toolbox
5. Against Participation
6. Matters of Generosity: On Art and Love
7. What Reveals the Taste of the City. On Urbanity
Bibliography