Interpassivity : the aethetics of delegated enjoyment / Robert Pfaller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pfaller, Robert, author.

Series:

Incitements.

Incitements

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Passivity (Psychology).

Happiness--Philosophy.

Happiness.

Consumption (Economics)--Philosophy.

Consumption (Economics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

Summary:

Why do people record TV programmes instead of watching them? Why are former alcoholics pleased to let other people drink in their place? Why can ritual machines pray in place of believers? Robert Pfaller advances the theory of 'interpassivity' as delegated consumption and enjoyment.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Interpassivity Today

1 The Work of Art that Observes Itself: The Aesthetics of Interpassivity

2 The Parasites of Parricide. Living through the Other when Killing the Father: Interpassivity in The Brothers Karamazov

3 Little Gestures of Disappearance: Interpassivity and the Theory of Ritual

4 Interpassivity and Misdemeanours: The Art of Thinking in Examples and the Žižekian Toolbox

5 Against Participation

6 Matters of Generosity: On Art and Love

7 What Reveals the Taste of the City: The Ethics of Urbanity

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 6, 2017).

ISBN:

1-4744-3499-1

1-4744-2294-2

1-4744-2295-0

OCLC:

1312725781