2. Distinction through Aspectual Irresolution

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. ONE: The Unsettling
5. 1. The Thought of Aesthetic Distinction 1
6. 2. Life Form and Settledness 7
7. 3. Aesthetic Unsettling 26
8. 4. The Use of Unsettling 40
9. 5. The Account 46
10. TWO: Accounting for Ourselves
11. 1. Determinacy 57
12. 2. The Original Scene of Self-Determination 61
13. 3. Form as Answer: Hegel’s Conception of the Aesthetic as Determinacy 72
14. 4. Form as Question: A Conception of the Aesthetic as Indeterminacy The Alternative Accounts 79
15. 5. The Task of a Unified Accounting Our Argument about Indeterminacy 91
16. THREE: A Three-Way Capacity
17. 1. Rationality and Indeterminacy 96
18. 2. A Rational Capacity 98
19. 3. Failed Attempts at Conceiving Indeterminacy 115
20. 4. Indeterminacy as Part of Our Form 124
21. 5. Indeterminacy as Such 134
22. FOUR: Logical Account of Aesthetic Action: Aspectual Irresolution
23. 1. The Concept of Aesthetic Action 137
24. 2. Distinction through Aspectual Irresolution 140
25. 3. Internal Unity in Crisis 162
26. 4. Aesthetic Indeterminacy 172
27. 5. External Unity with Action at Large 177
28. FIVE: Material Account of Aesthetic Action: Bond without Terms
29. 1. Logical and Material Accounting 192
30. 2. Bond without Terms 203
31. 3. Aesthetic Interaction 215
32. 4. Life as Such 229
33. 5. The Question of Who We Are 234
34. SIX: Aesthetic Transformation
35. 1. Aesthetic Action as Transformation 241
36. 2. Performance without Resources 245
37. 3. The Work of Aspectual Irresolution 259
38. 4. Transformation That Includes Its Terms 262
39. 5. The Aesthetic Self 266
40. SEVEN: The Use of the Aesthetic
41. 1. The Political as Example 279
42. 2. Our Form as Political Task 282
43. 3. Tino Sehgal: Genus Politics 290
44. 4. Kara Walker: Politics of Difference 304
45. 5. Mazen Kerbaj: Politics of Life as Such 321
46. Notes 331
47. Bibliography 373
48. Index 385