Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

In this fascinating book, Christine Buci-Glucksmann explores the condition of modernity - alienation, melancholy, nostalgia - through the works of a number of writers and philosophers, including the social and aesthetic philosophy of Walter Benjamin. The author examines Baudelaire′s haunting image of the city and its profound effect on conceptions of modernity. She goes on to consider how such influential figures as Nietzsche, Adorno, Musil, Barthes and Lacan constitute a baroque paradigm, united by their allegorical style, their conflation of aesthetics with ethics and their subject matter - death, catastrophe, sexuality, myth, the female. In her exegesis of these fundamental themes Buci-Glucksmann proposes an epistemology

Buci-Glucksmann, Christine

History

Sage Publications Ltd.

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

The Madness of Vision: On Baroque Aesthetics (Volume 44) (Series In Continental Thought)

Christine Buci-Glucksmann’s The Madness of Vision is one of the most influential studies in phenomenological aesthetics of the baroque. Integrating the work of Merleau-Ponty with Lacanian psychoanalysis, Renaissance studies in optics, and twentieth-century mathematics, the author asserts the materiality of the body and world in her aesthetic theory. All vision is embodied vision, with the body and the emotions continually at play on the visual field. Thus vision, once considered a clear, uniform, and totalizing way of understanding the material world, actually dazzles and distorts the perception of reality. In each of the nine essays that form The Madness of Vision Buci-Glucksmann develops her theoretical argument via a study of a major painting, sculpture, or influential visual image—Arabic script, Bettini’s “The Eye of Cardinal Colonna,” Bernini’s Saint Teresa and his 1661 fireworks display to celebrate the birth of the French dauphin, Caravaggio’s Judith Beheading Holofernes, the Paris arcades, and Arnulf Rainer’s self-portrait, among others—and deftly crosses historical, national, and artistic boundaries to address Gracián’s El Criticón; Monteverdi’s opera Orfeo; the poetry of Hafiz, John Donne, and Baudelaire; as well as baroque architecture and Anselm Kiefer’s Holocaust paintings. In doing so, Buci-Glucksmann makes the case for the pervasive influence of the baroque throughout history and the continuing importance of the baroque in contemporary arts.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Ohio University Press

Hardcover NF/NF, 1st edn, uncommon, xiv + 470pps w/index.

Gramsci and the state

Lawrence and Wishart

Gramsci et l'État: Pour une Théorie Matérialiste de la Philosophie (Digraphe) (French Edition)

FAYARD

La raison baroque: De Baudelaire à Benjamin (Débats) (French Edition)

GALILEE

L'esthétique du temps au Japon (0000)

Najia Mehadji: La Revelation du Geste /The Revelation of the Gesture

Meddeb, Abdelwahab

Labrusse, Remi

Amel, Pascal

Rieffel, Veronique

Somogy Editions D'Art

Orlan : Un boeuf sur la langue

Morineau, Camille

Chavanne, Blandine

Fage Editions

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