Robert Hughes

The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Thinking the Body-Thought

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book elucidates the work of 21st-century European thinkers to describe the event of art as an intuited correspondence between (a) a sensuous object grasped at its limit of form and deformation and (b) an aesthetic subject unsettlingly exposed at its own limits of form and the real.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040098202
• Artikelnr.: 70759599

Autorenporträt

Robert Hughes is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He is author of Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Beyond of Language (2010) and has published a number of essays on figures in contemporary continental thought. He is also a translator of contemporary French and German philosophy, most recently Peter Sloterdijk's Making the Heavens Speak: Religion as Poetry (2023), and he is co-editor of After Lacan: Clinical Practice and the Subject of the Unconscious (2002).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Butler on the body not given, Lyotard on body-thought and the
aesthetic subject
1. Irigaray on the limits of the homely figuration of the unhomely subject
2. Badiou on the aesthetic subject's intimations of the void
3. Nancy on sense and the disidentification of the aesthetic subject
4. Perniola on visuality as a mode of sense: Between an ideal of being and
formless nonbeing
5. Sloterdijk on the body's indifference to the supposed mastery of
consciousness
6. Rancière on the body as a political figure of order in the shared life
of the aesthetic subject
Index