Aesthetics of Appearing

Martin Seel

Published by Stanford University Press 2005

Aesthetics of Appearing

Martin Seel

In the series Cultural Memory in the Present

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781503619852

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About this book

This book proposes that aesthetics begin not with concepts of being or semblance, but with a concept of appearing. Appearing bespeaks of the reality that all aesthetic objects share, however different they may otherwise be. For Martin Seel, appearing plays its part everywhere in the aesthetic realm, in all aesthetic activity. In his book, Seel examines the existential and cultural meaning of aesthetic experience. In doing so, he brings aesthetics and philosophy of art together again, which in continental as well as analytical thinking have been more and more separated in the recent decades. Within Seel's framework, to apprehend things and events with respect to how they appear momentarily and simultaneously to our senses represents a genuine way for human beings to encounter the world. The consciousness that emerges here is an anthropologically central faculty. In perceiving the unfathomable particularity of a sensuously given we gain insight into the indeterminable of our lives. Attentiveness to what is appearing is therefore at the same time attentiveness to ourselves. This is also the case when works of art imagine past or future, probable or improbable presences. Artworks develop their transgressive energy from their presence as sense-catching forms. They bring about a special presence in which a presentation of close or distant presences comes about.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
I A Rough History of Modern Aesthetics
1. Eight Short Stories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	2
2. Aesthetics as Part of Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
II Aesthetics of Appearing
1. What Is Appearing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	24
2. Being-so and Appearing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
3. Appearing and Semblance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
4. Appearing and Imagination Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
5. Situations of Appearing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
6. Constellations of Art Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
7. A Play for Presence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
III Flickering and Resonating BORDERLINE EXPERIENCES OUTSIDE AND INSIDE ART Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
IV Thirteen Statements on the Picture Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	159
V Variations on Art and Violence Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231

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Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 256
Keywords: Philosophy -- Aesthetics

eBook

Published: January 21, 2022
ISBN: 9781503619852