Productive digression : theorizing practice / Anselm Haverkamp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Haverkamp, Anselm, author.

Series:

Paradigms, 2195-2205 ; Volume 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociolinguistics.

Psycholinguistics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations, tables.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Productive Digression is a translation of the ancient term poetics: as a practice of theory. The products produced in the mode of poiesis are 'digressive' in that they operate off track; they resist the main stream of every day prose. They do so for various reasons and in various respects. Mostly, they are explained historically, relative to historical contexts and, that is, contrary to what they are meant to resist. Instead, this book investigates the modes of resistance, their epistemology of production, in short, the logic of digression. The method addresses the singular exemplarity of art and literature; it elucidates the impact of poiesis as an epistemological challenge and redefines the analysis of literature and art as branches of an Historical Epistemology. Proceeding from the state of affairs in 20th century criticism and aesthetics (Benjamin, Adorno, Blumenberg, Merleau-Ponty), the epistemology of representation (Whitehead, Canguilhem, Bachelard, Rheinberger) is revised in, and with respect to critical consequences (Derrida, Marin, de Man, Agamben). From literary criticism and critical legal studies to the scenario of the life sciences, the essays collected here redirect the logic of research towards the epistemological grounds of an aesthetics underneath the hermeneutics of every day life.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Preface

Contents

Equivalence Unbalanced

Art Awaits Its Explanation

The Scandal of Metaphorology

Blumenberg in Davos

Art is Messianicity: Radical Illustration in the Face of God

The Phaocentrism of the Eye

Confessio Infirmitatis or Productive Digression

In/Doors: The Dialectic of Inside and Outside

To Conceive of, in Pictures

Christ's Case

To Destroy Painting: The Baroque Caesura of History

Chaos by Design

Mass Times Acceleration

A Narrow Thing Within One Word

Life in the Sonnets

Mirror Effects in Euphantasy Land

Index of Names

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 26, 2017).

ISBN:

9783110484960

311048496X

9783110486216

3110486210

OCLC:

987921693