1st Edition
The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature Thinking the Body-Thought
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
Biography
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).
