The Pathos of the Real : On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (228 pages)
- Rethinking Theory Series .
- Rethinking Theory Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- "La passion du réel" -- Alain Badiou's The Century -- The Real after Lacan -- Violent Images -- Pathos -- Pathos Formulae -- 1 In Praise of Cruelty: Bataille, Kafka, and ling'chi -- A Photograph -- The "Supplice Pattern" -- "At Once Ecstatic and Intolerable": Georges Bataille -- Kafka's "Chinese" Cruelty -- 2 Fragmentary Description of a Disaster: Claude Simon -- Two Battlefields -- Ekphrastic Writing and Iconoclasm: Picturing the Real -- Perceptual Vertigo and the "Stupid and Stupefying Fury of Things" -- Pictorial Metaphors and the Iconic Archives of War -- The Crack in the Picture: Gazing at "a Reality More Real Than the Real" -- 3 The Resistance to Pathos and the Pathos of Resistance: Peter Weiss -- La mort de Marat -- "Your Suffering Is in Vain" -- Resistance to Pathos: The Investigation -- The Pathos of Resistance in The Aesthetics of Resistance -- 4 Medeamachine: The "Fallout" of Violence in Heiner Müller -- Description of an Image -- "To Kill, with Humility": Versuchsreihe -- "The Pictures of Those Flogged to Death": Postdramatic Necromancy -- Epilogue -- Between hubris and humilitas -- Francis Bacon -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
In dialogue with a diverse group of thinkers, from Erich Auerbach and Aby Warburg to Alain Badiou and Jacques Lacan, The Pathos of the Real advances an innovative new framework for rethinking the aesthetics of violence in the twentieth century.