The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Butler on the body not given, Lyotard on body-thought and the aesthetic subject
	Opening image
	Some points of orientation: What is meant by the body?
	The body: Judith Butler on the body not given
	Body-thought: Lyotard on the excess in art and the aesthetic subject
	Notes
	References
1. Irigaray on the limits of the homely figuration of the unhomely subject
	Before the beginning and after: The self as the home of man\'s being
	Estrangement in the house of language
	Woman, Odysseus, and the return to the unhomely home
	Notes
	References
2. Badiou on the aesthetic subject\'s intimations of the void
	The subject of art: Facing the body and the world, facing the trace and the event
	Art as a thought, supported by a human body, about form emerging from formlessness
	Love and art as engagements with the real
	The cracked monument: Art as a formal problem, played out on the human body
	Conclusion: Form and the advent of the subject in art (and love)
	Notes
	References
3. Nancy on sense and the disidentification of the aesthetic subject
	Nancy\'s dépaysement and the risk of losing oneself in the paysage
	Double exposure and the disidentification of sense
	Strange: The uncanny body and its others
	The ethics of existential singularity and the plaited phenomenology of art
	Notes
	References
4. Perniola on visuality as a mode of sense: Between an ideal of being and formless nonbeing
	Form as the production of intelligible order against a ground of formlessness
	The Baroque as thinking the inconsistent copresence of form and formlessness
	Perniolan aesthetics: Formations of subject, thought, and art, when the supremacy of the visual paradigm is contested
	Conclusion: The form of the subject in a pluriformal, post-Baroque world
	Notes
	References
5. Sloterdijk on the body\'s indifference to the supposed mastery of consciousness
	Notes
	References
6. Rancière on the body as a political figure of order in the shared life of the aesthetic subject
	The body as a figure of order in the representative regime
	History as the place of egalitarian speech
	Betweenitude: The free-play of art and the freedom of a people
	Notes
	References
Index