The Aesthetic Imperative

21.04.2017

9780745699875

John Wiley & Sons

Nein

Peter Sloterdijk

300

Taschenbuch

Trade Paperback (US)

Karen Margolis

Peter Sloterdijk is Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe School of Design.

Aesthetics, Ästhetik, Kunst, Philosophie, Philosophie der Kunst, Philosophy, Philosophy of Art, Philosophy Special Topics, Spezialthemen Philosophie

Contents I. WORLD OF SOUND La musique retrouvée Remembrance of Beautiful Politics Where Are We When We Hear Music? II. IN THE LIGHT Clearing and Illumination. Notes on the Metaphysics, Mysticism and Politics of Light Illumination in the Black Box: On the History of Opacity III. DESIGN The Right Tool for Power: Observations on Design as the Modernization of Competence On the Charisma of Symbols For a Philosophy of Play IV. CITY AND ARCHITECTURE The City and its Negation: An Outline of Negative Political Theory. Architects Do Nothing But 'Inside Theory': Peter Sloterdijk in conversation with Sabine Kraft and Nikolaus Kuhnert For a Participatory Architecture - Notes on the Art of Daniel Libeskind with reference to Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Paul Valéry V. CONDITIO HUMANA Essay on the Life of the Artist: Heretics *Wastrels* Falls/Cases* Inhabitants Confessions of a Loser Minima Cosmetica - An Essay on Self-Aggrandizement. VI. MUSEUM The Museum ? School of Disconcertment World Museum and World's Fair VII. ART SYSTEM 'I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself' Art is folding into itself Emissaries of Violence - On the Metaphysics of Action Cinema Good-For-Nothing Returns Home or The End of an Alibi - and A Theory of the End of Art Afterword by Peter Weibel: Sloterdijk and the Question of Aesthetics Notes Publication Sources

229 mm

15.2 cm