Extreme Beauty Aesthetics, Politics, Death

What do we mean when we speak of "beauty"? What do we experience? Beauty is no longer the human experience of the harmonious object; today an aesthetics of difference has revolutionised our ways of seeing the beautiful. Now, we live in a time of "extreme beauty." Extreme Beauty explores art, literature, politics, and philosophy in order to illuminate how the concept and experience of beauty has changed. The essays range from Hegel and Modernism to Marcel Duchamp and the Avant-Garde, postmodern poetics, boredom and Proust, the romance of Arendt and Heidegger, fascism and the consumption of the flesh, postcolonialism and imagination to Derrida and the glory and gift of death.

General Introduction

vii

James E. Swearingen

Joanne Cutting-Gray

Part One: An Other Beauty

Introduction

3

(1)

Feeling the Difference

4

(13)

Mario Perniola

Part Two: Art and the Turn to the Postmodern

Introduction

15

(2)

Breton's Post-Hegelian Modernism

17

(12)

Jean-Michel Rabate

Postponing the Future: Marcel Duchamp and the Avant-Garde

29

(11)

Dalia Judovitz

When Less Is More, More or Less: Subtraction and Addition in (Post)Modernist Poetics

40

(16)

Peter Williams

Part Three: The Impossible Place of Literature

Introduction

53

(3)

Chora and Character: Mimesis of Difference in Plato's Timaeus

56

(11)

Max Statkiewicz

The Place of Boredom: Blanchot Not Reading Proust

67

(11)

Pierre Lamarche

Literature, Film, and Virtuality: Technology's Cutting Edge

78

(16)

Joel Black

Part Four: The Rhetoric of the Political

Introduction

91

(3)

Rhetoric, Politics, Romance: Arendt and Heidegger, 1924--26

94

(16)

Theodore Kisiel

Hannah Arendt: Literary Criticism and the Political

110

(14)

David Halliburton

The Politics of Fascism, or Consuming the Flesh of the Other

124

(18)

Michael Clifford

Part Five: The Political Imaginary

Introduction

139

(3)

Post-Colonialism and History: Are We Responsible for the Past?

142

(10)

Moira Gatens

Indigenous-Becoming in the Post-Colonial Polity

152

(11)

Paul Patton

The Post-Colonial Threshold of Capacity: ``The Other! The Other!''

163

(17)

Alfred Lopez

Part Six: Extreme Beauty -- Death, Glory

Introduction

177

(3)

The Simulacrum of Death: Perniola Beyond Heidegger and Metaphysics?

180

(14)

Robert Burch

A Deadly Gift: To Derrida, from Kierkegaard and Bataille

194

(14)

Kenneth Itzkowitz

Glory in Levinas and Derrida

208

(15)

Bettina Bergo

Abbreviations

223

(2)

Notes

225

(20)

Bibliography

245

(10)

Index

255

(3)

Contributors

258

(2)

Editors

260

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