Force : A Fundamental Concept of Aesthetic Anthropology.

By:

Menke, Christoph

Contributor(s):

Jackson, Gerrit

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780823250424

Subject(s):

Aesthetics, Modern - 18th century

Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: ForceDDC classification:

111.85

LOC classification:

BH183 -- .M4613 2013eb

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Contents:

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE Sensibility: The Indeterminacy of the Imagination -- CHAPTER TWO Praxis: The Practice of the Subject -- CHAPTER THREE Play: The Operation of Force -- CHAPTER FOUR Aestheticization: The Transformation of Praxis -- CHAPTER FIVE Aesthetics: Philosophy's Contention -- CHAPTER SIX Ethics: The Freedom of Self- Creation -- Notes.

Summary: This book reconceives modern aesthetics by reconstructing its genesis in the 18th century, between BaumgartenGs Aesthetics and KantGs Critique of Judgment. Force demonstrates that aesthetics, and hence modern philosophy, began twice. On the one hand, BaumgartenGs Aesthetics is organized around the new concept of the GsubjectG: as a totality of faculties; an agent defined by capabilities; one who is able. Yet an aesthetics in the Baumgartian manner, as the theory of the sensible faculties of the subject, at once faces a different aesthetics: the aesthetics of force. The latter conceives the aesthetic not as sensible cognition but as a play of expressionGpropelled by a force that, rather than being exercised like a faculty, does not recognize or represent anything because it is obscure and unconscious: the force of what in humanity is distinct from the subject. The aesthetics of force is thus a thinking of the nature of man: of aesthetic nature as distinct from the culture acquired by practice. It founds an anthropology of difference: between force and faculty, human and subject.

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This book reconceives modern aesthetics by reconstructing its genesis in the 18th century, between BaumgartenGs Aesthetics and KantGs Critique of Judgment. Force demonstrates that aesthetics, and hence modern philosophy, began twice. On the one hand, BaumgartenGs Aesthetics is organized around the new concept of the GsubjectG: as a totality of faculties; an agent defined by capabilities; one who is able. Yet an aesthetics in the Baumgartian manner, as the theory of the sensible faculties of the subject, at once faces a different aesthetics: the aesthetics of force. The latter conceives the aesthetic not as sensible cognition but as a play of expressionGpropelled by a force that, rather than being exercised like a faculty, does not recognize or represent anything because it is obscure and unconscious: the force of what in humanity is distinct from the subject. The aesthetics of force is thus a thinking of the nature of man: of aesthetic nature as distinct from the culture acquired by practice. It founds an anthropology of difference: between force and faculty, human and subject.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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