Haecceities : essentialism, identity, and abstraction / by Jeffrey Strayer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Strayer, Jeffrey, author.

Series:

Philosophy of history and culture ; Volume 36.

Philosophy of history and culture, 0922-6001 ; Volume 36

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Abstract.

Abstraction.

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Haecceity (Philosophy).

Strayer, Jeffrey. Haecceities series.

Strayer, Jeffrey.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (482 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]

Summary:

Haecceities: Essentialism, Identity, and Abstraction is both an artistic and philosophical examination of the limits of Abstraction in art and of kinds of radical identity that are determined in the identification of those limits. Building on his work Subjects and Objects , Strayer shows how the fundamental conditions of making and apprehending works of art can be used, in concert with language, thought, and perception, as ‘material’ for producing the more Abstract and radical artworks possible. Certain limits of Abstraction and possibilities of radical identity are then identified that are critically and philosophically considered. They prove to be so extreme that the concepts artwork, abstraction, identity, and object in art, philosophy, and philosophy of art, have to be reconsidered.

Contents:

Space, Time, Language, and Objects and Particular Matters of General Relevance to Essentialism

Haecceities, Ideational Objects, and Identity

The Space of Apprehension and the Field of Understanding

Essentialist Determination of Some Limits of Abstraction and Kinds of Radical Identity : Selections from the Haecceities Series with Commentary.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Online version: Strayer, Jeffrey, author. Haecceities

ISBN:

90-04-33843-8

90-04-33844-6

OCLC:

970636375

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004338449 DOI