Productive Digression: Theorizing Practice

Productive Digression: Theorizing Practice

by Anselm Haverkamp
Productive Digression: Theorizing Practice

Productive Digression: Theorizing Practice

by Anselm Haverkamp

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Overview

Productive Digression is a translation of the ancient term poetics: as a practice of theory. The products produced in the mode of poiesis are ‘digressive’ in that they operate off track; they resist the main stream of every day prose. They do so for various reasons and in various respects. Mostly, they are explained historically, relative to historical contexts and, that is, contrary to what they are meant to resist. Instead, this book investigates the modes of resistance, their epistemology of production, in short, the logic of digression.

The method addresses the singular exemplarity of art and literature; it elucidates the impact of poiesis as an epistemological challenge and redefines the analysis of literature and art as branches of an Historical Epistemology. Proceeding from the state of affairs in 20th century criticism and aesthetics (Benjamin, Adorno, Blumenberg, Merleau-Ponty), the epistemology of representation (Whitehead, Canguilhem, Bachelard, Rheinberger) is revised in, and with respect to critical consequences (Derrida, Marin, de Man, Agamben). From literary criticism and critical legal studies to the scenario of the life sciences, the essays collected here redirect the logic of research towards the epistemological grounds of an aesthetics underneath the hermeneutics of every day life.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9783110482584
Publisher: De Gruyter
Publication date: 05/08/2017
Series: Paradigms , #5
Pages: 246
Product dimensions: 6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

A. Haverkamp, New York Univ. (em.); USA; European Univ. Viadrina (em.); Frankfurt/Oder; Ludwig-Maximilians-Univ., Munich, Germany.

Table of Contents

Equivalence Unbalanced 1

Metaphor, Case, and Example

Art Awaits Its Explanation 14

Recent Interest in Adorno

The Scandal of Metaphorology 34

Blumenberg's Challenge

Blumenberg in Davos 53

The Cassirer-Heidegger Controversy Reconsidered

Art is Messianicity: Radical Illustration in the Face of God Jacques Derrida Romeo Castellucci Antonello da Messina 68

The Phaocentrism of the Eye 81

From Longinus to Merleau-Ponty

Confessio Infirmitatis or Productive Digression 91

Iconic Difference Taken Apart and Put to Good Use in Legal Affairs

In/Doors: The Dialectic of Inside and Outside 105

On Interiors and Interiority

To Conceive of, in Pictures 121

An Episode from the History of Knowledge

Christ's Case 147

Doubled Mimesis, Martyrdom Transfigured

To Destroy Painting: The Baroque Caesura of History 156

Louis Marin Mourning the Revolution

Chaos by Design 171

The Light-Sound Constellation

Mass Times Acceleration 185

Rhetoric as the Meta-Physics of Aesthetics

A Narrow Thing Within One Word 200

The Foreclosure of Nature in Post-Shakespearian Worlds and Times

Life in the Sonnets 216

Shakespearean Intuitions

Mirror Effects in Euphantasy Land 226

The Unholy Alliance of Selection and Evolution

Index of Names 231

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