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Allen S. Weiss - Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 1994

Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon

Av Allen S. Weiss

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Perverse Desire and the Ambiguous Icon analyzes the limits of the applicability of psychoanalytic theory to aesthetic discourse, and in doing so expands the range of non-normative paradigms of spectatorial identification and sexual identity. These considerations are based on the epistemological premises that the ideal seldom coincides with the empirical, and that identification is always partial, fragmented, heterogeneous, mixed, such that total identification would be tantamount to delirium. The imagination is but the ephemera of partial objects torn from culture and history, the transgression by fragmentation of a contemporary cosmos all too unified and all too controlled to admit the most singular, and idiosyncratic, phantasms of our desires. Thus we must posit an aesthetics where theory and interpretation are juxtaposed to, or traced above, the effects of the passions, where a muscular contraction or spasm is worth as much as a concept. It is here, at the fragile limit between iconophilia and iconoclasm, that the ironies and exigencies of poetic justice reside.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 1994-11-22
  • Mått: 150 x 229 x 10 mm
  • Vikt: 249 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 158
  • Förlag: State University of New York Press
  • ISBN: 9780791421567
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Allen S. Weiss is author of The Aesthetics of Excess and Shattered Forms: Art Brut, Phantasms, Modernism, both published by SUNY Press, and Miroirs de l'infini: Le jardin a francaise et la metaphysique au XVIIe siecle.

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"Here is an extremely intelligent, well-informed, authoritative account of some of the most exciting and novel aspects of contemporary thought and contemporary aesthetics. This is really solid, exciting work. It will be a major text in the field of contemporary aesthetics and postmodernist debate."Weiss shows what is at stake in aesthetic production in a range of fields: film, literature, music, painting. He clearly articulates the projects and tasks of modernism, postmodernism, surrealism, Dadaism. All in view of Freudian approaches, Freudian (and Lacanian) limitations, and concerns of popular culture. The book is a real delight to read, philosophically well-informed (Derrida, Deleuze, Klossowski, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Lyotard, Heidegger), and contemporary." — David B. Allison, State University of New York, Stony Brook

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