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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Terada, Rei, 1962- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xii, 225 pages)
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index.
ISBN:9780674054721
0674054725