The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise: Phenomenology and Speculation

Author:   Jadranka Skorin-Kapov
Publisher:   Lexington Books
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9781498518468


Pages:   212
Publication Date:   08 October 2015
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Jadranka Skorin-Kapov
Publisher:   Lexington Books
Imprint:   Lexington Books
Dimensions:   Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.60cm
Weight:   0.463kg
ISBN:  

9781498518468


ISBN 10:   149851846
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   08 October 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: Desire and Excess Chapter 2: Limit Experiences, Difference, Repetition, and Singularity Chapter 3: Surprise Chapter 4: The Properly Aesthetic Experience and Knowledge Chapter 5: Desire||Surprise and the Irreducible in an Aesthetic Encounter Conclusion

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Jarred by endless war and jaded by decades of 'culture industry', one might think of surprise as a quaintly exotic or even extinct experience. Yet in proving the irrepressible character of what she calls 'the desire for the unexpected' and its intrinsic tie to the 'Aha!' experience, Jadranka Skorin-Kapov rekindles hope in a seemingly hopeless world. -- Robert Harvey, Stoney Brook University The arguments, analyses, and insights presented in The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise are new and important. The strongest features of the work are its originality and thoroughness. Many works refer to surprise as a component of some other analysis, but no other work that I know of is devoted exclusively to the phenomenology of surprise. Surprise is an underappreciated category of the aesthetic that gets its due in this work -- Richard Gilmore, Concordia College


Jarred by endless war and jaded by decades of 'culture industry', one might think of surprise as a quaintly exotic or even extinct experience. Yet in proving the irrepressible character of what she calls 'the desire for the unexpected' and its intrinsic tie to the 'Aha!' experience, Jadranka Skorin-Kapov rekindles hope in a seemingly hopeless world. -- Robert Harvey, Stony Brook University The arguments, analyses, and insights presented in The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise are new and important. The strongest features of the work are its originality and thoroughness. Many works refer to surprise as a component of some other analysis, but no other work that I know of is devoted exclusively to the phenomenology of surprise. Surprise is an underappreciated category of the aesthetic that gets its due in this work -- Richard Gilmore, Concordia College


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Jadranka Skorin-Kapov is professor of operations research at Stony Brook University, with additional PhDs in philosophy and art history, and author of Darren Aronofsky's Films and the Fragility of Hope.

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