TY  - BOOK
AU  - Buch,Robert
TI  - The Pathos of the Real: On the Aesthetics of Violence in the Twentieth Century
T2  - Rethinking Theory Series
SN  - 9780801899270
AV  - BH301.C88 B83 2010 
U1  - 190.9/04 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Aesthetics, Modern-20th century
KW  - Violence-History-20th century
KW  - Pathos-History-20th century
KW  - Reality-History-20th century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
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