Looking away : phenomenality and dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno / Rei Terada.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Terada, Rei, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Appearance (Philosophy).

Perception (Philosophy).

Satisfaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Looking Away, Rei Terada revisits debates about appearance and reality in order to make a startling claim: that the purpose of such debates is to police feelings of dissatisfaction with the given world. Terada proposes that the connection between dissatisfaction and ephemeral phenomenality reveals a hitherto-unknown alternative to aesthetics that expresses our right to desire something other than experience "as is", even those parts of it that really cannot be otherwise.

Contents:

Coleridge among the spectra

Purple haze

Thoughts and things

Contemporary theories of derealization and mistrust

Appearance and acceptance in Kant

From mere to necessary appearance

No fault

The right to a phenomenal world

Legalize it

No right : phenomenality and self-denial in Nietzsche

Genealogy of phenomenality

Stolen phenomenality

The disappearance of appearance

Court of appeal or Adorno

Critique of facticity

Illusion in total illusion

Circus colors

Court of appeal.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-217) and index.

ISBN:

9780674054721

0674054725

OCLC:

651663922