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Art, Mimesis and the Avant-Garde Aspects of a Philosophy of Difference
By Andrew Benjamin
Copyright 1991
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
228 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores the relationship between art and philosophy. Andrew Benjamin argues for a reworking of the task of philosophy in terms of the centrality of ontology. It is in relation to this centrality, understood through the differences between modes of being, that art, mimesis and the avant-garde come to be presented. A fundamental part of this book is the original interpretations of... Read more
INTRODUCTION: INAUGURATING REPETITION 1 INTERPRETING REFLECTIONS: PAINTING MIRRORS 2 SPACING AND DISTANCING 3 BETRAYING FACES: LUCIAN FREUD’S SELF[1]PORTRAITS 4 PRESENT REMEMBRANCE: ANSELM KIEFER’S ICONOCLASTIC CONTROVERSY 5 KITAJ AND THE QUESTION OF JEWISH IDENTITY 6 MALEVICH AND THE AVANT-GARDE 7 EISENMAN AND THE HOUSING OF TRADITION 8 PLURALISM, THE COSMOPOLITAN AND THE AVANT-GARDE 9 THE DECLINE OF ART: BENJAMIN’S AURA 10 TRADITION AND EXPERIENCE: WALTER BENJAMIN’S ‘ON SOME MOTIFS IN BAUDELAIRE’ 11 DESCARTES’ FABLE: THE DISCOURS DE LA METHODE 12 THE REDEMPTION OF VALUE: LAPORTE, WRITING AS ABKURZUNG
Biography
Andrew Benjamin lectures in philosophy at the University of Warwick. He is the author of Translation and the Nature of Philosophy (1989) and What is Deconstruction? (1988, with Christopher Norris), and has edited several collections including Post-structuralist Classics (1988) and Problems of Modernity: Adorno and Benjamin (1989), both in the Warwick Studies in Philosophy and Literature series published by Routledge.
