Looking away : phenomenality and dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno /
In Looking Away, Rei Terada revisits debates about appearance and reality in order to make a startling claim: that the purpose of such debates is to police feelings of dissatisfaction with the given world. Terada proposes that the connection between dissatisfaction and ephemeral phenomenality reveal...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
2009.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | In Looking Away, Rei Terada revisits debates about appearance and reality in order to make a startling claim: that the purpose of such debates is to police feelings of dissatisfaction with the given world. Terada proposes that the connection between dissatisfaction and ephemeral phenomenality reveals a hitherto-unknown alternative to aesthetics that expresses our right to desire something other than experience "as is", even those parts of it that really cannot be otherwise |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780674054721 0674054725 |