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Why only art can save us : aesthetics and the absence of emergency /

Santiago Zabala declares that in an age where the greatest emergency is the absence of emergency, contemporary art's ability to create new realities is fundamental to democracy. He advances a new aesthetics that draws on Martin Heidegger's distinction between works of art that rescue us fr...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Zabala, Santiago, 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The emergency of aesthetics
  • Measurable contemplations
  • Indifferent beauty
  • Emergency through art
  • Social paradoxes
  • Urban discharges
  • Environmental calls
  • Historical accounts
  • Emergency aesthetics
  • Anarchic interpretations
  • Existential interventions.