1st Edition
Metaphysics and Aesthetics of Decoration Ornamental Thinking
List of contributors
List of figures
1 Introduction: What is ornament?
Michaela Fišerová and Jakub Mácha
2 Truth in ornament: Aesthetics of repetition between Derrida and Kierkegaard
Michaela Fišerová
3 Crafting an ornament: On the craft emancipation myth
Tereza Sluková
4 Ornamental play in Deleuze’s aesthetics
Corry Shores
5 Decorum in interspecies cohabitation: Hume, Deleuze, and becoming-ornament
Michaela Fišerová
6 Ornamental representations: Exploring the interplay between aesthetics and politics
Lenka Lee
7 Foucault’s Baroque
Barry Stocker
8 Languages of ornament and art: Repetition, norm, and deviation
Peter Michalovič
9 Ornaments as frozen music
Vanda Božičević Metzger
10 Framing metaphysics: Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and the ornamentation of philosophical grounding
Jakub Mácha
Index
Biography
Michaela Fišerová is an associate professor at the Faculty of Arts, University of J. E. Purkyně in Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic, and a researcher at Metropolitan University Prague. She works in the fields of contemporary philosophy and aesthetics, with specialisation in the problematics of media, arts, politics, and animality. She is the author of Sharing the Visible: Rethinking Foucault (2013), Image and Power: Interviews with French Thinkers (2015), Deconstructing Signature (2016), Fragmentary Vision: Rancière, Derrida, Nancy (2019), and Event of Signature: Jacques Derrida and Repeating of the Unrepeatable (SUNY, 2022).
Jakub Mácha is a researcher at the Metropolitan University Prague and a professor at the Department of Aesthetics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He has published on the philosophy of language and classical German philosophy. He is the author of Wittgenstein on Internal and External Relations: Tracing All the Connections (2015). His co-edited volumes include Wittgenstein and the Creativity of Language (2016), Wallace Stevens: Poetry, Philosophy, and Figurative Language (2018), Wittgenstein and Hegel: Reevaluation of Difference (2019), Engaging Kripke with Wittgenstein (2024), and Platonism (2024). His most recent book is The Philosophy of Exemplarity: Singularity, Particularity, and Self-Reference (Routledge, 2023).
