Looking away :: phenomenality and dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno /

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. Terada proposes that the connection between dissatisfaction and ephemeral phenomenality reveal...

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Main Author: Terada, Rei, 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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. 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
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 225 pages)
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-217) and index.
ISBN:9780674054721
0674054725

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