The Temptation Of Non Being

Author : Artemy Magun
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350429996
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Temptation of Non-Being written by Artemy Magun and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do we enjoy artworks that depict disasters and suffering? Is this a hangover from the Modernist impulse to break the rules of harmony? Is there actually a proper way to perform negativity in art without resorting to nihilism? The Temptation of Non-Being uses these fundamental questions to paint a picture of contemporary art as beset by an outbreak of the negative, and to construct a new theory of art as a medium of complex negativity. The negative in art is explained not as a simple negation or destruction, but as a multifaceted, polymorphous structure with a vast range of strategies and techniques from parody and pastiche to defamiliarization and non-resemblance. Charting the depth of these negative practices, Artemy Magun shows how they become progressively more complex and explicit, illustrating them with interdisciplinary examples from Lars von Trier, Jacek Malczewski, Andrei Platonov and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. At the heart of this layered, nested structure lies an understanding of Modern aesthetics that helps to answer even more questions: how can the testing, probing nature of art lead to this preoccupation with the negative? Why does this negativity emerge in the first place? What can it tell us about art itself and how it functions in society? This is an erudite and provocative analysis that enriches the ongoing evaluation of both 'high' and 'low' art.

Author : F. C. Blyth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
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Download or read book Thoughts on the Lord's Prayer written by F. C. Blyth and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cristina Borgoni
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192591061
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fragmented Mind written by Cristina Borgoni and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mental fragmentation is the thesis that the mind is fragmented, or compartmentalized. Roughly, this means that an agent's overall belief state is divided into several sub-states-fragments. These fragments need not make for a consistent and deductively closed belief system. The thesis of mental fragmentation became popular through the work of philosophers like Christopher Cherniak, David Lewis, and Robert Stalnaker in the 1980s, and has recently attracted increased attention. This volume is the first collection of essays devoted to the topic of mental fragmentation. It features important new contributions by leading experts in the philosophy of mind, epistemology, and philosophy of language. Opening with an accessible introduction providing a systematic overview of the current debate, the fourteen essays cover a wide range of issues: foundational issues and motivations for fragmentation, the rationality or irrationality of fragmentation, fragmentation's role in language, the relationship between fragmentation and mental files, and the implications of fragmentation for the analysis of implicit attitudes.

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Total Pages : 784 pages
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Download or read book The Arena written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeremy Taylor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
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Download or read book The whole works of Jeremy Taylor written by Jeremy Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : E. M. Cioran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628724951
Total Pages : 204 pages
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Download or read book The Temptation to Exist written by E. M. Cioran and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of eleven essays originally appeared in France thirty years ago and created a literary whirlwind on the Left Bank. Cioran writes incisively about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, mystics, apostles, and philosophers. The Temptation to Exist first introduced this brilliant European thinker twenty years ago to American readers, in a superb translation by Richard Howard. This literary mystique around Cioran continues to grow, and The Temptation to Exist has become an underground classic. In this work Cioran writes about Western civilizations, the writer, the novel, about mystics, apostles, philosophers. For those to whom the very word philosophy brings visions of arduous reading, be assured: Cioran is crystal-clear, his style quotable and aphoristic. “A sort of final philosopher of the Western world. His statements have the compression of poetry and the audacity of cosmic clowning”—The Washington Post

Author : Jeremy Taylor
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor written by Jeremy Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 644 pages
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Download or read book A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church: The confessions and letters of St. Augustin, with a sketch of his life and work. [1907 written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Boston Symphony Orchestra
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1908 pages
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Download or read book Works Performed at the Symphony Concerts During the Season of ... written by Boston Symphony Orchestra and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 1908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 652 pages
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Download or read book A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: