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Aesthetics of Anxiety (SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature) - Softcover

Ronen, Ruth

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9780791476680: Aesthetics of Anxiety (SUNY series, Insinuations: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, Literature)
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ISBN 10: 0791476685 ISBN 13: 9780791476680
Publisher: SUNY Press, 2010

Synopsis

What is the relation of anxiety to aesthetics? Aesthetics of Anxiety brings psychoanalysis into dialogue with aesthetics, providing provocative and original insights into aesthetic theory and experience. From Aristotle's katharsis to the role played by pain and disgust in the aesthetics of the avant-garde, the notion of anxiety helps us understand the particular kind of discontent (or negative pleasure) that accompanies aesthetic experience. Anxiety, articulated through such notions as desire, the unconscious, and the real, is also presented as a productive tool for understanding the Kantian aesthetic categories of pleasure, beauty, the sublime, and genius. Aesthetics of Anxiety goes beyond the idea that there is anxiety in aesthetics to place anxiety at the very heart of aesthetic experience, thus transforming anxiety into a particularly aesthetic affect that becomes part of our understanding of every work of art, every act of creation.

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About the Author

Ruth Ronen is Professor of Philosophy at Tel Aviv University and the author of Possible Worlds in Literary Theory and Representing the Real.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Publication date
2010
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0791476685
ISBN 13 
9780791476680
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
183
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