Adapted from Theory for Religious Studies, by William E. Deal and Timothy K. Beal
Photography: History and Theory introduces students to both the history of photography and critical theory. From its inception in the nineteenth century, photography has instigated a series of theoretical debates. In this new text, Jae Emerling th...
This book examines transmissibility to remind us why the vitality and epistemic significance of an artwork is anachronistic and futural. Transmissibility: Writing Aesthetic History performs a transdisciplinary philosophy of aesthetic history via t...
"A lucid and profoundly hopeful inquiry into the possibilities for art history and critical theory by one of the most brilliant of the emerging generation of art historians." -Donald Preziosi, Oxford University
Jae Emerling has been Chancellor's Fellow in the Department of Art History at UCLA.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION I. PREDECESSORS 1. Sigmund FREUD 2. Karl MARX 3. Friedrich NIETZSCHE 4. Ferdinand de SAUSSURE II. THEORY FOR ART HISTORY 5. Theodor Wiesengrund ADORNO 6. Giorgio AGAMBEN 7. Louis ALTHUSSER 8. Alain BADIOU 9. Roland BARTHES 10. Georges BATAILLE 11. Jean BAUDRILLARD 12. Walter BENJAMIN 13. Pierre BOURDIEU 14. Judith BUTLER 15. Gilles DELEUZE and Felix GUATTARI 16. Jacques DERRIDA 17. Michel FOUCAULT 18. Martin HEIDEGGER 19. Luce IRIGARAY 20. Julia KRISTEVA 21. Jacques LACAN 22. Emmanuel LEVINAS 23. Jean-Francois LYOTARD 24. Maurice MERLEAU-PONTY 25. Edward W. SAID 26. Gayatri Chakravorty SPIVAK III. AFTERWORD: A Relation of Immanence: The Afterlife of Art History and Critical Theory