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Chance, phenomenology and aesthetics: Heidegger, Derrida and contingency in twentieth-century art

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Bloomsbury Academic 2021 LondonDescription: xii, 222 p. Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN:
  • 9781350148468
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 111.85 A6C4
Summary: In drawing upon the work of Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and aligning it with a new trend in interdisciplinary phenomenology, Ian Andrews provides a unique look at the role of chance in art and its philosophical implications. His account of how the composer John Cage and other avant-garde creatives such as Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, Sol LeWitt and Ed Ruscha used chance in their work to question the structures of experience and prompt a new engagement with these phenomena makes a truly important contribution to Continental philosophy. Chance, Phenomenology and Aesthetics will appeal to scholars and advanced students in the disciplines of phenomenology, deconstruction and hermeneutics, as well as being compelling reading for anyone interested in pursuing sound studies, art theory and art history through an interdisciplinary post-phenomenological lens. https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/chance-phenomenology-and-aesthetics-9781350148468/
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Table of content

1.Introduction
2. The Spot on the Wall: Chance versus Automatism
3. Sound and Phenomenology: Pierre Schaeffer's Sonic Research
4. Chance as Epoche: John Cage and Non-intentionality
5. Twisting Free form Aesthetics and the Will: Heidegger and the work of Art
6. Purposive Purposelessness: Cage, Heidegger, Eckhart
7. Fluxus and the Flux: Husserl, Derrida and Gadamer on Experience
8. Poethics: I Have Nothing to Say and I am Saying It
9. Contingency, Complex Realism and the Cinematic Image

In drawing upon the work of Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and aligning it with a new trend in interdisciplinary phenomenology, Ian Andrews provides a unique look at the role of chance in art and its philosophical implications. His account of how the composer John Cage and other avant-garde creatives such as Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, Sol LeWitt and Ed Ruscha used chance in their work to question the structures of experience and prompt a new engagement with these phenomena makes a truly important contribution to Continental philosophy.
Chance, Phenomenology and Aesthetics will appeal to scholars and advanced students in the disciplines of phenomenology, deconstruction and hermeneutics, as well as being compelling reading for anyone interested in pursuing sound studies, art theory and art history through an interdisciplinary post-phenomenological lens.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/chance-phenomenology-and-aesthetics-9781350148468/

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