Pimentel Aesth-ethics

Of Hospitality in Art
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-65846-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 294 Seiten

Reihe: Philosophy and Religion (R0)

The question of hospitality is the most pressing question in contemporary thought: How can we host that which is utterly Other, that which resists all conceptualization, and thus disrupts the proper course of thought? In the current book, the discussion of hospitality is given a new conceptualization, and extended to the field of aesthetics: the event of hospitality does not occur in the face-to-face encounter with the other person, as Emmanual Levinas conceived of it, but rather in the encounter with the work of art itself. Writing about the event of hospitality—as it is eventuated in art—involves subverting the traditional precedence of theory over practice. This subversion is also evident in the indifference to traditional distinctions, such as those between poetry and visual art; modern art and classical art; international art and local art. Moreover, most of the artworks considered throughout are hybrid in character: they are suspended in the space between the visual and the verbal, whether they involve the verbal representation of a visual object (as in Rilke’s poem “Archaic Torso of Apollo”), or a visual representation of a verbal object (as in Anselm Kiefer’s work “Your Golden Hair Margarete”). The consideration of these and other works come together to give rise to a novel and original discourse on art that is termed “Aesth-ethics,” and which is presented for the first time in this volume.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pimentel, Dror

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Work of the Artwork.- Chapter 2. Of Hospitality: From Ethics to Aesth-ethics.- Chapter 3. Rilke’s Testimony.- Chapter 4. Specters of Beuys.- Chapter 5. The Homeland of the Unhomely.- Chapter 6. My Name Is Not Odradek.- Chapter 7. Who by Fire.- Chapter 8. The Haunted Signifier.- Chapter 9. The Gift of Violence.- Chapter 10. Conclusion: Towards Aesth-ethics.

Über Autor(innen)

Prof. Dror Pimentel lectures in the department of Visual and Material Culture and in the MA Program of Policy and Theory of the Arts, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem. Pimentel’s book (2014) and his translation of Heidegger’s (2018) were published in Hebrew. His book was published by Palgrave Macmillan (2019).