Aesthetics of Anxiety

AvRuth Ronen

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Places anxiety at the heart of the aesthetic experience.What is the relation of anxiety to aesthetics? Aesthetics of Anxiety brings psychoanalysis into dialogue with aesthetics, providing provocative and original insights into aesthetic theory and experience. From Aristotle's katharsis to the role played by pain and disgust in the aesthetics of the avant-garde, the notion of anxiety helps us understand the particular kind of discontent (or negative pleasure) that accompanies aesthetic experience. Anxiety, articulated through such notions as desire, the unconscious, and the real, is also presented as a productive tool for understanding the Kantian aesthetic categories of pleasure, beauty, the sublime, and genius. Aesthetics of Anxiety goes beyond the idea that there is anxiety in aesthetics to place anxiety at the very heart of aesthetic experience, thus transforming anxiety into a particularly aesthetic affect that becomes part of our understanding of every work of art, every act of creation.

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Utgivningsdatum:2010-01-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature
Antal sidor:195
Förlag:State University of New York Press
ISBN:9780791476680

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Ruth Ronen is Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University and the author of Possible Worlds in Literary Theory and Representing the Real.

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"This book will be useful for readers seeking to locate Kantian aesthetics in the Anglo-American tradition from the vantage point of Heidegger's ontology and Lacan's poststructuralist reworking of psychoanalytic theory." — CHOICE

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Aesthetics of AnxietyDispleasure in AestheticsKant’s Aesthetics and Modernist UpheavalsDispleasure and Anxiety in Aesthetic ExperiencePsychoanalysis and AestheticsThe Object of Anxiety, the Object of Aesthetic Judgment1. On the Anxiety Prior to Any Possible Judgment of TasteKant and Aesthetic PleasureAre Negative Judgments of Taste Aesthetic?Anxiety Is Prior to Any Act of Judgment2. The Beautiful ThingAesthetics Beyond Beauty?The Uncanny in FreudFrom Kant’s Aesthetic Idea to the Surrealist DollFrom Intimacy to Absolute Extimacy: The Subject as DollFrom the Uniqueness of Beauty to the Effect of Repetition3. Catharsis, Displeasure, and AnxietyCatharsis: Between the Pleasure Principle and beyond the Pleasure PrincipleCatharsis "Is Previous to Desire’s Formidable Center That Sucks Us In"4. Toward Two Principles of Aesthetic FunctioningAnxiety: The Access Road to the RealAnxiety and Creation5. Beyond the SublimeThe Sublime and the Object of NatureThe Sublime Is Not without an ObjectThe Object of the SublimeSublimation and the Totality of the Thing6. The Subversion of the Genius and the Dialectic of CreationThe Enigma of Unparticular Particularity in Joycean WritingKant, Genius, and the Paradox of Original ExemplarityGenius and the Subject of CreationLacan with JoyceNotesBibliographyIndex