Handbook of inaesthetics / Alain Badiou ; translated by Alberto Toscano.

By:

Badiou, Alain

Contributor(s):

Toscano, Alberto

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005Description: 1 online resource (xi, 148 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781503601666
1503601668

Uniform titles:

Petit manuel d'inesthetique. English

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Handbook of inaesthetics.DDC classification:

111/.85 22

LOC classification:

B2430.B273 P3813 2005eb

Other classification:

08.41

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Contents:

Art and philosophy --- What is a poem?, Or, philosophy and poetry at the point of the unnamable --- A French philosopher responds to a Polish poet --- A philosophical task: to be contemporaries of Pessoa --- A poetic dialectic: Labîd ben Rabi'a and Mallarmeʹ --- Dance as a metaphor for thought --- Theses on theater --- The false movements of cinema --- Being, existence, thought: prose and concept --- Philosophy of the faun.

Summary: Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philosophy, the third term in this knot being the education of subjects, youth in particular. What characterizes the century that has just come to a close is that, while it underwent the saturation of these three schemata, it failed to introduce a new one. Today, this predicament tends to produce a kind of unknotting of terms, a desperate dis-relation between art and philosophy, together with the pure and simple collapse of what circulated between them: the theme of education. Whence the thesis of which this book is nothing but a series of variations: faced with such a situation of saturation and closure, we must attempt to propose a new schema, a fourth type of knot between philosophy and art. Among these "inaesthetic" variations, the reader will encounter a sustained debate with contemporary philosophical uses of the poem, bold articulations of the specificity and prospects of theater, cinema, and dance, along with subtle and provocative readings of Fernando Pessoa, Stephane Mallarme, and Samuel Beckett

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 142-148).

Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philosophy, the third term in this knot being the education of subjects, youth in particular. What characterizes the century that has just come to a close is that, while it underwent the saturation of these three schemata, it failed to introduce a new one. Today, this predicament tends to produce a kind of unknotting of terms, a desperate dis-relation between art and philosophy, together with the pure and simple collapse of what circulated between them: the theme of education. Whence the thesis of which this book is nothing but a series of variations: faced with such a situation of saturation and closure, we must attempt to propose a new schema, a fourth type of knot between philosophy and art. Among these "inaesthetic" variations, the reader will encounter a sustained debate with contemporary philosophical uses of the poem, bold articulations of the specificity and prospects of theater, cinema, and dance, along with subtle and provocative readings of Fernando Pessoa, Stephane Mallarme, and Samuel Beckett