Book
Description
What
do we mean when we speak of "beauty"? What do we
experience? Beauty is no longer the human experience of the
harmonious object; today an aesthetics of difference has revolutionised
our ways of seeing the beautiful. Now, we live in a time of
"extreme beauty."
Extreme Beauty explores art, literature, politics, and philosophy
in order to illuminate how the concept and experience of beauty
has changed. The essays range from Hegel and Modernism to
Marcel Duchamp and the Avant-Garde, postmodern poetics, boredom
and Proust, the romance of Arendt and Heidegger, fascism and
the consumption of the flesh, postcolonialism and imagination
to Derrida and the glory and gift of death.
Table
of Contents
Part I: An Other Beauty
Introduction
1. Feeling the Difference, Mario Perniola (University of Rome)
Part
II:
2. Breton's Post-Hegelian Modernism, Jean-Michel Rabaté (University
of Pennsylvania)
3. Postponing the Future: Marcel Duchamp and the Avant-Garde,
Dalia Judovitz (Emory University)
4. When Less is More, More or Less: Subtraction and Addition
in (Post)Modernist Poetics, Peter Williams (University of
Sydney)
Part III: The Impossible Place of Literature
Introduction
5. Chora and Character: Mimesis of Difference in Plato's Timaeus,
Max Statkiewicz (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
6. The Place of Boredom: Blanchot Not Reading Proust, Pierre
Lamarche
7. Literature, Film, and Virtuality: Technology's Cutting
Edge, Joel Black (University of Georgia)
Part IV: The Rhetoric of the Political
Introduction
8. Rhetoric, Politics, Romance: Arendt and Heidegger, 1924-26,
Theodore Kisiel (Northern Illinois University)
9. Hannah Arendt: Literary Criticism and the Political, David
Halliburton (Stanford University)
10. The Politics of Fascism, or Consuming the Flesh of the
Other, Michael Clifford (Mississippi State University)
Part V: The Political Imaginary
Introduction
11. Post-Colonialism and History: Are we Responsible for the
Past?, Moira Gatens (University of Sydney)
12. Indigenous-Becoming in the Post-Colonial Polity, Paul
Patton (University of New South Wales)
13. The Post-Colonial Threshold of Capacity: "The Other!
The Other!", Alfred López (Florida International University)
Part VI: Extreme Beauty--Death, Glory
Introduction
14. The Simulacrum of Death: Perniola Beyond Heidegger and
Metaphysics?, Robert Burch (University of Alberta, Edmonton)
15. A Deadly Gift: To Derrida, from Kierkegaard and Bataille,
Kenneth Itzkowitz (Marietta College, Ohio)
16. Glory in Levinas and Derrida, Bettina Bergo (Duquesne
University, Pittsburgh, PA)
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
Editors
Index
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