Art makes its mark upon our flesh. It ravishes our eyes, invades our ears, and stirs our viscera; it commandeers our powers of attention and unsettles our body with its strangenesses. The event of art is thus an encounter both with a sensuous object and with ourselves, exposing us as subjects strangely susceptible to being moved.The twenty-first-century European thinkers elucidated here describe a theory of the aesthetic subject: Irigaray articulates the basic outlines of a subject ill at ease with itself. Badiou, Nancy, and Perniola theorize art as an event of deformation that befalls an aesthetic subject fundamentally invested in form. Rancière and Sloterdijk explore the figuration of the body (and its limits) in contexts closer to everyday experience and our life within modern history and politics. This study brings together feminist, psychoanalytic, and phenomenological inheritances to describe the operations of the real in art and aesthetic life.
| ISBN: | 9781032749136 |
| Publication date: | 26th December 2025 |
| Author: | Robert Hughes |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 162 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature |
| Genres: |
Philosophy: aesthetics Literary studies: general |
Art makes its mark upon our flesh. It ravishes our eyes, invades our ears, and stirs our viscera; it commandeers our powers of attention and unsettles our body with its strangenesses. The event of art is thus an encounter both with a sensuous object and with ourselves, exposing us as subjects strangely susceptible to being moved.The twenty-first-century European thinkers elucidated here describe a theory of the aesthetic subject: Irigaray articulates the basic outlines of a subject ill at ease with itself. Badiou, Nancy, and Perniola theorize art as an event of deformation that befalls an aesthetic subject fundamentally invested in form. Rancière and Sloterdijk explore the figuration of the body (and its limits) in contexts closer to everyday experience and our life within modern history and politics. This study brings together feminist, psychoanalytic, and phenomenological inheritances to describe the operations of the real in art and aesthetic life.
The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature features in the following genres: Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: general
The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature was written by Robert Hughes and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature has 162 pages
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