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This book places anxiety at the heart of the aesthetic experience.

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Author:   Ruth Ronen
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9780791476673

ISBN 10:   0791476677
Pages:   195
Publication Date:   15 January 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

"List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction: Aesthetics of Anxiety Displeasure in Aesthetics Kant's Aesthetics and Modernist Upheavals Displeasure and Anxiety in Aesthetic Experience Psychoanalysis and Aesthetics The Object of Anxiety, the Object of Aesthetic Judgment 1. On the Anxiety Prior to Any Possible Judgment of Taste Kant and Aesthetic Pleasure Are Negative Judgments of Taste Aesthetic? Anxiety Is Prior to Any Act of Judgment 2. The Beautiful Thing Aesthetics Beyond Beauty? The Uncanny in Freud From Kant's Aesthetic Idea to the Surrealist Doll From Intimacy to Absolute Extimacy: The Subject as Doll From the Uniqueness of Beauty to the Effect of Repetition 3. Catharsis, Displeasure, and Anxiety Catharsis: Between the Pleasure Principle and beyond the Pleasure Principle Catharsis ""Is Previous to Desire's Formidable Center That Sucks Us In"" 4. Toward Two Principles of Aesthetic Functioning Anxiety: The Access Road to the Real Anxiety and Creation 5. Beyond the Sublime The Sublime and the Object of Nature The Sublime Is Not without an Object The Object of the Sublime Sublimation and the Totality of the Thing 6. The Subversion of the Genius and the Dialectic of Creation The Enigma of Unparticular Particularity in Joycean Writing Kant, Genius, and the Paradox of Original Exemplarity Genius and the Subject of Creation Lacan with Joyce Notes Bibliography Index"

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"""This book will be useful for readers seeking to locate Kantian aesthetics in the Anglo-American tradition from the vantage point of Heidegger's ontology and Lacan's poststructuralist reworking of psychoanalytic theory."" - CHOICE"

This book will be useful for readers seeking to locate Kantian aesthetics in the Anglo-American tradition from the vantage point of Heidegger's ontology and Lacan's poststructuralist reworking of psychoanalytic theory. - CHOICE

Author Information

Ruth Ronen is Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University and the author of Possible Worlds in Literary Theory and Representing the Real.

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