Aesthetic Action

AvFlorian Klinger

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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In this new book, Florian Klinger gives readers a basic action-theoretical account of the aesthetic. While normal action fulfills a determinate concept, Klinger argues, aesthetic action performs an indeterminacy by suspending the action's conceptual resolution. Taking as examples work by Tino Sehgal, Kara Walker, Mazen Kerbaj, Marina Abramović, Cy Twombly, and Franz Kafka, the book examines indeterminacy in such instances as a walk that is at once leisurely and purposeful, a sound piece that is at once joyous and mournful and mechanical, or a sculpture that at once draws one in and shuts one out. Because it has irresolution as its point, aesthetic action presents itself as an unsettling of ourselves, our ways, our very sense of who we are. As performers of such action, we don't recognize one another as bearers of a shared human form as we normally would, but find ourselves tasked anew with figuring out what sharing a form would mean. In conversation with philosophers such as Kant, Hegel, Wittgenstein, and Anscombe; political thinkers such as Marx and Lorde; and contemporary interlocutors such as Michael Thompson, Sebastian Rödl, and Thomas Khurana, Klinger's book makes a case for a conception of the human form that systematically includes the aesthetic: an actualization of the form that is indeterminate and nevertheless rational. The book gives the project of Western philosophical aesthetics a long-overdue formulation for our present that aims to do justice to contemporary aesthetic production as it actually exists. It will appeal to those working in philosophy, art, and political thought.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-01-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt:708 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:404
Förlag:Stanford University Press
ISBN:9781503636972

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Mer om författaren

Florian Klinger is Associate Professor in Germanic Studies and the College at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Theory of Form: Gerhard Richter and Art in the Pragmatist Age (2022).

Recensioner i media

"With ingenious, stunning readings, Klinger breaks new ground in aesthetics. This is a philosophy of art with which thinkers and scholars will contend for years to come."—Henry W. Pickford, Duke University "Aesthetic Action offers a highly original and substantial outline of a new understanding of aesthetics. This is an important and rigorous contribution to emerging conversations in philosophy, of highest interest for readers interested in giving an account of contemporary art."—Rüdiger Campe, Yale University "Klinger gives us an entirely new way of understanding the indeterminacy of our encounters with art. In his incisive analyses he offers a truly fresh view of art, one that opens the fields of interaction each work creates."—Niklaus Largier, University of California, Berkeley "This book rethinks action through aesthetics and aesthetics through action, providing us with a new insight into the kind of unsettling that the aesthetic is and affords."—María del Rosario Acosta López, University of California, Riverside "Compellingly argued, this ground-breaking book culminates with a series of helpful applications involving case studies of such challenging, contemporary artists as Tino Sehgal, Kara Walker, and Mazen Kerbaj. A dazzling achievement, this book will surely prompt renewed interest in contemporary aesthetics. Essential."—J. G. Moore, CHOICE

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceONE. The Unsettling 1. The Thought of Aesthetic Distinction2. Life Form and Settledness3. Aesthetic Unsettling4. The Use of Unsettling5. The Account TWO. Accounting for Ourselves 1. Determinacy2. The Original Scene of Self-Determination3. Form as Answer: Hegel's Conception of the Aesthetic as Determinacy4. Form as Question: A Conception of the Aesthetic as Indeterminacy5. The Task of a Unified AccountingTHREE. A Three-Way Capacity1. Rationality and Indeterminacy2. A Rational Capacity3. Failed Attempts at Conceiving Indeterminacy4. Indeterminacy as Part of Our Form5. Indeterminacy as SuchFOUR. Logical Account of Aesthetic Action: Aspectual Irresolution1. The Concept of Aesthetic Action2. Distinction through Aspectual Irresolution3. Internal Unity in Crisis4. Aesthetic Indeterminacy5. External Unity with Action at LargeFIVE. Material Account of Aesthetic Action: Bond without Terms1. Logical and Material Accounting2. Bond without Terms3. Aesthetic Interaction4. Life as Such5. The Question of Who We AreSIX. Aesthetic Transformation 1. Aesthetic Action as Transformation2. Performance without Resources3. The Work of Aspectual Irresolution4. Transformation That Includes Its Terms5. The Aesthetic SelfSEVEN. The Use of the Aesthetic 1. The Political as Example2. Our Form as Political Task3. Tino Sehgal: Genus Politics4. Kara Walker: Politics of Difference5. Mazen Kerbaj: Politics of Life as SuchNotesBibliographyIndex