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PublisherHarvard University Press
ISBN-100674032683
ISBN-139780674032682
eBay Product ID (ePID)70943475
Product Key Features
Number of Pages240 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameLooking Away : Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno
Publication Year2009
SubjectPersonal Growth / Happiness, Epistemology, Movements / Phenomenology, General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPhilosophy, Self-Help
AuthorRei Terada
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight20 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2008-035604
ReviewsThis original book's contribution is of the best kind: not to provide a set of answers, but to open up a whole new area of questions. This is likely to be an important book for all those interested in rethinking those territories of experience previously disciplined by the idea of "the aesthetic.", We have "Looked Awry" with #381i#382ek, and now we "Look Away" with Terada--and what do we see? Terada's scintillating study reveals all that is to be gained--intellectually, aesthetically, politically--from tarrying with the apparent. This slender volume is the best of guides to what its author calls "phenomenophilia," a strong inclination to cultivate ephemeral perceptual experience, and the perils and pleasures thereof, as these are anatomized in the writings of Kant, Coleridge, Nietzsche, and Adorno. This work of Terada's helps us imagine how to think more freely, and her accounts of these writers' respective takes on experiences of the fleeting, the glimpsed, the evanescent are themselves queer in the most errant sense of the term.
Dewey Edition22
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal190
Table Of ContentAcknowledgments Abbreviations and Textual Note Pretext Coleridge among the Spectra Purple Haze Thoughts and Things Contemporary Theories of Derealization and Mistrust Appearance and Acceptance in Kant From Mere to Necessary Appearance No Fault The Right to a Phenomenal World Legalize It No Right: Phenomenality and Self-Denial in Nietzsche Genealogy of Phenomenality Stolen Phenomenality The Disappearance of Appearance Court of Appeal, or, Adorno Critique of Facticity Illusion in Total Illusion Circus Colors Court of Appeal Postscript Bibliography Index
SynopsisTerada revisits debates about appearance and reality in order to make a startling claim: that the purpose of such debates is to police feelings of dissatisfaction with the given world., In Looking Away, Rei Terada revisits debates about appearance and reality in order to make a startling claim: that the purpose of such debates is to police feelings of dissatisfaction with the given world. Focusing on romantic and post-romantic thought after Kant, Terada argues that acceptance of the world "as is" is coerced by canonical epistemology and aesthetics. In guilty evasions of this coercion, post-Kantian thinkers cultivate fleeting, aberrant appearances, perceptual experiences that do not present themselves as facts to be accepted and therefore become images of freedom. This "phenomenophilia," she suggests, informs romanticism and subsequent philosophical thought with a nascent queer theory. Through graceful readings of Coleridge's obsession with perceptual ephemera, or "spectra," recorded in his Notebooks; of Kant's efforts in his First and Third Critiques to come to terms with the given world; of Nietzsche's responses to Kant and his meditations on ephemeral phenomenal experiences; and of Adorno's interpretations of both Nietzsche and Kant, Terada proposes that the connection between dissatisfaction and ephemeral phenomenality reveals a hitherto-unknown alternative to aesthetics that expresses our right to desire something other than experience "as is," even those parts of it that really cannot be otherwise.
LC Classification NumberB829.5.T35 2009
