Aesthetic Action

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Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Preface
One: The Unsettling
	1. The Thought of Aesthetic Distinction
	2. Life Form and Settledness
	3. Aesthetic Unsettling
	4. The Use of Unsettling
	5. The Account
Two: Accounting for Ourselves
	1. Determinacy
	2. The Original Scene of Self-Determination
	3. Form as Answer: Hegel’s Conception of
the Aesthetic as Determinacy
	4. Form as Question: A Conception of the Aesthetic as Indeterminacy
	5. The Task of a Unified Accounting
Three: A Three-Way Capacity
	1. Rationality and Indeterminacy
	2. A Rational Capacity
	3. Failed Attempts at Conceiving Indeterminacy
	4. Indeterminacy as Part of Our Form
	5. Indeterminacy as Such
Four: Logical Account of Aesthetic Action: Aspectual Irresolution
	1. The Concept of Aesthetic Action
	2. Distinction through Aspectual Irresolution
	3. Internal Unity in Crisis
	4. Aesthetic Indeterminacy
	5. External Unity with Action at Large
Five: Material Account of Aesthetic Action: Bond without Terms
	1. Logical and Material Accounting
	2. Bond without Terms
	3. Aesthetic Interaction
	4. Life as Such
	5. The Question of Who We Are
Six: Aesthetic Transformation
	1. Aesthetic Action as Transformation
	2. Performance without Resources
	3. The Work of Aspectual Irresolution
	4. Transformation That Includes Its Terms
	5. The Aesthetic Self
Seven: The Use of the Aesthetic
	1. The Political as Example
	2. Our Form as Political Task
	3. Tino Sehgal: Genus Politics
	4. Kara Walker: Politics of Difference
	5. Mazen Kerbaj: Politics of Life as Such
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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