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The German List Ser.: Art of Diremption : On the Powerlessness of Art by Leonhard Emmerling (2022, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSeagull Books
ISBN-101803090340
ISBN-139781803090344
eBay Product ID (ePID)8057289801
Product Key Features
Number of Pages164 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameArt of Diremption : on the Powerlessness of Art
Publication Year2022
SubjectCriticism & Theory, General
TypeTextbook
AuthorLeonhard Emmerling
Subject AreaArt
SeriesThe German List Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight11.3 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width7.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2024-356079
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal701.03
Table Of ContentIntroduction Kant I Kant II: Disinterestedness and sensus communis The Sublime: Kant and Schiller Stendhal and the Promise of Joy Nietzsche I Excursus I: On Semblance Nietzsche II Hegel: Decision, Diremption, Freedom Art after the End of Art Excursus II Radicality and Community Producing Truth: Morality As Though / Propositional Content / Morality Aesthetics and Interest Aesthetic Difference / Experience / Ethics The Politics of Art
SynopsisAn engaging exploration of the meaning and power of art that looks at popular theories through the ages. One of the most astonishing aspects of the discourse on contemporary art is the firm and unwavering belief that art has the power to transform society for the better. There seems to be a consensus around the idea that art, especially visual art, is greatly suited to addressing all manner of social, political, economic, ecological, and other imbalances. Celebrated as a powerful remedy for social grievances, art finds its justification in the service it seems to provide to society. But as art historian Leonhard Emmerling contends in this timely volume, this presumptuous heroism shows willful blindness towards art's subjugation to contradictions inherent in social relations. He argues that the narrative of the power of art has its specific history. In trying to reconstruct this history in Art of Diremption , he discovers instead art's fundamental powerlessness as the foundation for art's political relevance. Art is weak, argues Emmerling. It, therefore, requires an ethics of weakness, which rejects the discourse of impact and power to enable a politics of art containing the permanence of reflection, the unreliability of thought, and the emergence of form as the event of the new. With a meticulously studied and well-argued case about the "powerlessness of art," Art of Diremption will be an important contribution to the field of art, aesthetics, and philosophy.
LC Classification NumberN72.S6
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