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Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise

Phenomenology and Speculation
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The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise: Phenomenology and Speculation covers issues central to contemporary continental philosophy (desire, expectations, excess, rupture, transcendence, immanence, surprise). The proposed term desire||surprise captures the phenomenological-speculative character of the pair not yet and no longer. Non-obvious parallels between different thinkers are drawn, and the argumentation is organized around philosophical figures relevant in the sequence desire - excess -pause (rupture, break) - recuperation (surprise). The works of Levinas, Zizek, Bataille, Blanchot, Foucault, and Ricoeur are interpreted and positioned according to the proposed template of desire - excess - pause. The consideration of limit experiences involves authors fascinated by transgression, and the question of whether excess is immanent or transcendent. This discussion considers works by Nietzsche, Deleuze, Zizek, and Foucault. The analysis of surprise and the beginning of recovery after the pause considers works by Fink, Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Lyotard, Dufrenne, Bachelard, and Seel. The provocative argument elaborated in this work is that surprise starts with indifference. Furthermore, the argument is that surprise begins where the concept reaches its ending, hence that the limit of speculative thinking at its ending is the limit of aesthetics at its beginning. The work of Hegel, Schelling and Jaspers are discussed in order to argue for the beginning of aesthetics there where knowledge ends. Philosophical thematic is contextualized via sections on artists such as Duchamp and Mondrian, and on some films, provoking interest of aestheticians working in art history and cultural studies departments.
Introduction
Chapter 1: Desire and Excess
Chapter 2: Limit Experiences, Difference, Repetition, and Singularity
Chapter 3: Surprise
Chapter 4: The Properly Aesthetic Experience and Knowledge
Chapter 5: Desire--Surprise and the Irreducible in an Aesthetic Encounter
Conclusion
Introduction Chapter 1: Desire and Excess Chapter 2: Limit Experiences, Difference, Repetition, and Singularity Chapter 3: Surprise Chapter 4: The Properly Aesthetic Experience and Knowledge Chapter 5: Desire||Surprise and the Irreducible in an Aesthetic Encounter Conclusion
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