The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature: Thinking the Body-Thought
Author:   Robert Hughes
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Pages:   162
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
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The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature: Thinking the Body-Thought


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Author:   Robert Hughes
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
ISBN:  

9781032749136


ISBN 10:   103274913
Pages:   162
Publication Date:   26 December 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Acknowledgments Introduction: Butler on the body not given, Lyotard on body-thought and the aesthetic subject 1. Irigaray on the limits of the homely figuration of the unhomely subject 2. Badiou on the aesthetic subject’s intimations of the void 3. Nancy on sense and the disidentification of the aesthetic subject 4. Perniola on visuality as a mode of sense: Between an ideal of being and formless nonbeing 5. Sloterdijk on the body’s indifference to the supposed mastery of consciousness 6. Rancière on the body as a political figure of order in the shared life of the aesthetic subject Index

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Robert Hughes is Associate Professor of English at The Ohio State University. He is author of Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Beyond of Language (2010) and has published a number of essays on figures in contemporary continental thought. He is also a translator of contemporary French and German philosophy, most recently Peter Sloterdijk’s Making the Heavens Speak: Religion as Poetry (2023), and he is co-editor of After Lacan: Clinical Practice and the Subject of the Unconscious (2002).

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