Sublime Art: Towards an Aesthetics of the Future

Stephen Zepke

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2017

Sublime Art

Towards an Aesthetics of the Future

Stephen Zepke

In the series Crosscurrents

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780748670000

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Tracks the sublime art movement from Kant to the 21st century and onwards to a new future

Stephen Zepke tracks the sublime art movement from its beginnings in Kant to its flowering in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He shows that the idea of sublime art waxes and wanes in the work of Jean-François Lyotard, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Rancière and the recent Speculative Realism movement. With it, a visionary politics of art seeks to give it the most creative power possible: the power to overcome our conditions and embrace the unknown.

Key Features

Constructs a contemporary aesthetics of the sublime from the work of some of the most significant philosophers of the last 40 years
Traces a new genealogy of post-war art that dissolves the modern/postmodern rupture
Connects this sublime diagram of art with the emergence of a new future
Explores how aesthetic production directly challenges our contemporary biopolitical conditions

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Series Editor’s Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction: Exiled from Oneself– Art and Other Strange Migrations . . . Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
1. ‘Contempt for the world’ – Kant’s Aesthetics and the Sublime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	14
2. ‘A stranger to consciousness . . .’ – Lyotard and the Sublime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
3. ‘My whole structure of perception is in the process of exploding’ – Deleuze and Guattari and the Sublime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	109
4. Framing the Abyss – The Deconstruction of the Sublime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	164
5. For Those Who Disagree – Rancière and the Sublime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
Postscript: ‘Art after experience’– Speculative Realism and the Sublime Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	279

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Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 296
Illustrations
- Other: 20 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Philosophy

eBook

Published: August 9, 2017
ISBN: 9780748670000