In Praise of Nonsense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Praise of Nonsense write by Winfried Menninghaus. This book was released on 1999-10. In Praise of Nonsense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." The author's close reading of this capricious narrative, based on Kant's theory of what it means to produce nonsense, reveals a specifically Romantic type of nonsense.
In Praise of Nonsense
In Praise of Nonsense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Praise of Nonsense write by Ted Hiebert. This book was released on 2012-06-28. In Praise of Nonsense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is truth in the postmodern age? The artistic generation of the twentieth century has grown up immersed in the delirious imagination of postmodern thought, which insists upon the ultimate uncertainty of meaning and that there is no self-evident truth. In Praise of Nonsense explores the possibilities and parameters of a postmodern imagination freed from the philosophical responsibilities of fiction, fact, and replication of lived experience. Mobilizing an array of scholars and contemporary artists, this study examines postmodern thinking through the lenses of identity and visual culture. Speculative, critical, and always creative in its approach, In Praise of Nonsense focuses on theories of disappearance, irony, and nonsense, where the pleasures of the imaginary give rise to artistic inspiration. When truth is unhinged, so is falsity, and all artistic thinking is called into question. Ted Hiebert takes on the ambitious project of holding postmodernism accountable for its own conclusions while also considering how those conclusions might still be given philosophical and artistic form.
In Praise of Nonsense
In Praise of Nonsense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Praise of Nonsense write by Winfried Menninghaus. This book was released on 1999-10-01. In Praise of Nonsense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shells, leafwork, picture frames, hummingbirds, wallpaper decorations, hems of clothing—such are the examples Kant's Critique of Judgment offers for a "free" and purely aesthetic beauty. Menninghaus's book demonstrates that all these examples refer to a widely unknown debate on the arabesque and that Kant, in displacing it, addresses genuinely "modern" phenomena. The early Romantic poetics and literature of the arabesque follow and radicalize Kant's move. Menninghaus shows parergonality and "nonsense" to be two key features in the spread of the arabesque from architecture and the fine arts to philosophy and finally to literature. On the one hand, comparative readings of the parergon in Enlightenment aesthetics, Kant, and Schlegel reveal the importance of this term for establishing the very notion of a self-reflective work of art. On the other hand, drawing on Kant's posthumous anthropological notebooks, Menninghaus extrapolates an entire Kantian theory of what it means to produce nonsense and why the Critique of Judgment defines genius precisely through the power (as well as the dangers) of doing so. Ludwig Tieck's 1797 rewriting of Charles Perrault's famous Bluebeard tale (1697) explicitly claims to be an "arabesque" book "without any sense and coherence." Menninghaus's close reading of this capricious narrative reveals a specifically Romantic—as opposed, say, to a Victorian or dadaistic—type of nonsense. Benjamin's as well as Propp's, Lévi-Strauss's, and Meletinskij's oppositions of myth and fairy tale lend additional credit to a Romantic poetics that inaugurates "universal poetry" while performing a bizarre trajectory through arabesque ornament, nonsense, parergonality, and the fairy tale.
In Praise of Nonsense
In Praise of Nonsense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Praise of Nonsense write by Ted Hiebert. This book was released on 2012. In Praise of Nonsense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A speculative exploration of theory, subjectivity and art in an age of uncertainty.
In Praise of Nonsense
In Praise of Nonsense - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Praise of Nonsense write by Ted Hiebert. This book was released on 2007. In Praise of Nonsense available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
