Aesthetics of Anxiety (SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature) - Softcover

Ronen, Ruth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791476685 ISBN 13: 9780791476680

Verlag: State University of New York Press, 2010

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"This book will be useful for readers seeking to locate Kantian aesthetics in the Anglo-American tradition from the vantage point of Heidegger's ontology and Lacan's poststructuralist reworking of psychoanalytic theory." -- CHOICE

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Places anxiety at the heart of the aesthetic experience.

What is the relation of anxiety to aesthetics? Aesthetics of Anxiety brings psychoanalysis into dialogue with aesthetics, providing provocative and original insights into aesthetic theory and experience. From Aristotle’s katharsis to the role played by pain and disgust in the aesthetics of the avant-garde, the notion of anxiety helps us understand the particular kind of discontent (or negative pleasure) that accompanies aesthetic experience. Anxiety, articulated through such notions as desire, the unconscious, and the real, is also presented as a productive tool for understanding the Kantian aesthetic categories of pleasure, beauty, the sublime, and genius. Aesthetics of Anxiety goes beyond the idea that there is anxiety in aesthetics to place anxiety at the very heart of aesthetic experience, thus transforming anxiety into a particularly aesthetic affect that becomes part of our understanding of every work of art, every act of creation.

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• Verlag: State University of New York Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0791476685
• ISBN 13: 9780791476680
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 198