The aesthetic paths of philosophy : presentation in Kant, Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy / Alison Ross.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ross, Alison, 1968-

Series:

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

xiv, 236 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Summary:

Ross argues that the thinking of Heidegger, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Nancy must be understood as ways of addressing the problem of presentation as framed by and inherited from Kant's Critique of Judgment.

Contents:

Introduction: the aesthetic paths of philosophy

The formulation of the problem of presentation in Kant's doctrine of taste

Pragmatic anthropology in the third critique's project of aesthetic presentation

Heidegger's reading of Kant and his historicization of relations of presentation

'Technology' and 'art' as relations of presentation in Heidegger's thought

Lacoue-Labarthe: aesthetic presentation and the figuring of the political

Nancy: touching the limits of presentation

Conclusion: the path of presentation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-226) and index.

ISBN:

080475487X

9780804754873

0804754888

9780804754880

OCLC:

71243902