Author

Publication

2009 - State University of New York Press, Albany, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

45,750 words, Guess

Page Count

183 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139780791476673
  • ISBN-100791476677
  • Library of Congress Control Number2008005672
  • OCLC Control Number192109643
  • Better World Books9780791476673
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC111/.85
  • LCCBF41 .R66 2009
  • LCCBF41.R66 2009

Description

"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."--Jacket.

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