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A matter of detail anthropology, philosophy, and aesthetics edited by Andrew Brandel, Veena Das, Sandra Laugier, and Perig Pitrou
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Andrew Brandel
- Series:
- Anthropological horizons
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Anthropology--Philosophy.
- Anthropology.
- Aesthetics.
- Art--History.
- Art.
- Attention--History.
- Attention.
- art history.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- University of Toronto Press, 2025.
- Toronto Buffalo London University of Toronto Press 2025
- Summary:
- "A Matter of Detail inspires new ways of thinking about detail by bringing anthropology, philosophy, art history, and aesthetics into direct conversation. Co-editors Brandel, Das, Laugier, and Pitrou challenge a long-standing assumption that the history of detail begins with European modernity and follows a teleological course from an object of scorn to a sign of the good. In its place, they offer a history of attention to detail that draws on classical and vernacular histories and traditions found in grammar, ritual, and poetics around the world. Emphasizing detail as a method and moving between its usage as a noun (detail) and a verb (detailing) enables them to tell stories about the reassembly of detail across accidents, contingencies, and unintended consequences. From this vantage, the book argues that details are not always small and insignificant. Rather, there is a dynamic relationship between the minute and the grand, detail and surface, which makes the proliferation of details threatening to the idea of an authoritative and integrated imagination of the whole. This expanded context generates ways of conceiving detail as a conceptual and moral mode of self-formation and being toward others, both human and non-human."-- Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- Frontmatter Contents Acknowledgments 1 A Matter of Detail: Introduction and Overview / Veena Das, Andrew Brandel, Sandra Laugier, Perig Pitrou 2 The Matter of Description: Detailing, Telling, Collecting / Sandra Laugier 3 Ethics and the Details of Life / Piergiorgio Donatelli 4 Detailing Scenes of Ordinary Grief across Ethnography and Poetry / Lotte Buch Segal 5 Details in a Minor Key / Marco Motta 6 Forgetting Quotation: Detail in the Dreams of Borges and Le Guin / andrew brandel 7 Effecting and Affecting Emotion: When Words Are Not Innocent / Veena Das 8 Hearing the Cries of Birds: The Poetics of Commentary in China / Michael Puett 9 The Visual Experience of the Details / Claire Brunet 10 The Patience of Detail / Frédérique Ildefonse 11 Tearing the Detail from the Totality: Adorno's Micrological Gaze / Estelle Ferrarese 12 Following the Clues: Detailing as Anthropological Method / Perig Pitrou Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Description based upon online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed December 2nd, 2025)
- Other Format:
- Print version Matter of detail
- ISBN:
- 1487549237
- 9781487554859
- 1487554850
- 9781487549237
- OCLC:
- 1528564653
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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