Handbook of Inaesthetics

by Alain Badiou

Book Overview

Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philosophy, the third term in this knot being the education of subjects, youth in particular. What characterizes the century that has just come to a close is that, while it underwent the saturation of these three schemata, it failed to introduce a new one. Today, this predicament tends to produce a kind of unknotting of terms, a desperate dis-relation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804744092
• ISBN13: 9780804744096
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"