Romantic Desire in (Post)Modern Art and Philosophy

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ISBN: 9780791442180 | 0791442187
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Copyright: 7/1/1999

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In this erudite and wide-ranging discussion of postmodernism and romanticism in twentieth-century art and philosophy, Jos de Mul sheds a fascinating light on the ambivalent character of our present culture, which oscillates between modern enthusiasm and postmodern irony. Along the way, he engages the work of such thinkers as Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Habermas, Lacan, Barthes, and Derrida; visual artists Magritte and Stella; poets Georg and Coleridge; and composers Schonberg, Cage, and Reich, among others, providing a sort of intellectual history of Romantic, Modernist, and Postmodernist "tempers."

List of Illustrations	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction	p. 1
The Kantian origins of modern aesthetics	p. 3
The unfulfillable Romantic desire	p. 6
Romantic irony	p. 9
The (post)modernism debate	p. 14
The foundations of modernism	p. 16
The postmodern Verwindung of modernism	p. 18
The topicality of Romantic desire	p. 22
The Romantic image of man	p. 26
Survey of the book's contents	p. 30
Frozen Metaphors	p. 35
A metaphor of winter: the winter of metaphor	p. 36
Gudmundsson's Great Poem	p. 41
Nietzsche and metaphor	p. 46
Fossilization and freezing	p. 49
The transcendental metaphor	p. 52
Tragic wisdom	p. 56
Socratic truth and nihilism	p. 59
The ambivalence of Romantic desire	p. 64
The music-making Socrates as Ubermensch	p. 67
It's so cold in Alaska	p. 71
The Path of Autonomy	p. 75
Piaget's studies of intellectual development and rationalization	p. 77
Rationalization and progress in art	p. 80
Stella and the completion of modern art	p. 89
The other side of rationalization: the dadaist and surrealist revolt	p. 90
Rationalization and modernism in Frankfurt	p. 96
Stella as postmodernist	p. 107
From avant-garde to postmodernism: the pyrrhic victory of modern art?	p. 114
The Art of Forgetting	p. 121
Metaphysics and aesthetics	p. 122
Schopenhauer's aesthetics of music	p. 124
Contradictions in Schopenhauer's aesthetics	p. 126
Nietzsche's Fragment an sich	p. 129
Repetition and forgetting: the music of Steve Reich	p. 131
Death through repetition	p. 133
Beyond the reality principle?	p. 135
The moment of the Eternal Recurrence	p. 139
The First and the Last Word	p. 143
The rhetoric of the unconscious	p. 145
Speaking language	p. 148
The speechless poet	p. 151
Heidegger's genealogy of the subject	p. 155
Unveiling and concealing Being	p. 157
The eternal lack	p. 163
The poet on the couch	p. 164
Poeticizing and thinking	p. 169
From metaphysics to metaphorics: the pyrrhic victory of postmodern philosophy?	p. 170
Disavowal and Representation	p. 173
Magritte's pipe: Yes, I know, but still ...	p. 177
Sexual and aesthetic disavowal	p. 180
The perversion of aestheticism	p. 182
The phallus as transcendental signifier	p. 185
Postmodern schizophrenia	p. 186
Superficiality from depth	p. 190
The Oldest Nobility in the World	p. 193
Barthes' battle against chance	p. 198
The semiology of music and the boundaries of verbal language	p. 199
The archaeology of the eighteenth-century semiology of music	p. 204
The sonata form and the episteme of man	p. 208
The musical dominion of the subject	p. 209
Barthes' second semiology and the death of the composer	p. 213
Cage's total aleatoric	p. 218
Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the world of chance	p. 219
The Aeolian harp	p. 226
Afterword: Virtual Romantics	p. 229
From Romantic to digital desire	p. 231
(Post)modern Romantics	p. 233
The (post)modern computer	p. 237
Digital dreams	p. 239
Notes	p. 245
Bibliography	p. 285
Name Index	p. 303
Subject Index	p. 309
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