11 Tearing the Detail from the Totality: Adorno’s Micrological Gaze

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1 A Matter of Detail: Introduction and Overview 1
5. 2 The Matter of Description: Detailing, Telling, Collecting 37
6. 3 Ethics and the Details of Life 61
7. 4 Detailing Scenes of Ordinary Grief across Ethnography and Poetry 81
8. 5 Details in a Minor Key 107
9. 6 Forgetting Quotation: Detail in the Dreams of Borges and Le Guin 131
10. 7 Effecting and Affecting Emotion: When Words Are Not Innocent 155
11. 8 Hearing the Cries of Birds: The Poetics of Commentary in China 195
12. 9 The Visual Experience of the Details 215
13. 10 The Patience of Detail 229
14. 11 Tearing the Detail from the Totality: Adorno’s Micrological Gaze 243
15. 12 Following the Clues: Detailing as Anthropological Method 263
16. Index 285