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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460295403321

Autore

Terada Rei <1962->

Titolo

Looking away [[electronic resource] ] : phenomenality and dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno / / Rei Terada

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : Harvard University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-674-05472-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Appearance (Philosophy)

Perception (Philosophy)

Satisfaction

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-217) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Coleridge among the spectra -- Purple haze -- Thoughts and things -- Contemporary theories of derealization and mistrust -- Appearance and acceptance in Kant -- From mere to necessary appearance -- No fault -- The right to a phenomenal world -- Legalize it -- No right : phenomenality and self-denial in Nietzsche -- Genealogy of phenomenality -- Stolen phenomenality -- The disappearance of appearance -- Court of appeal or Adorno -- Critique of facticity -- Illusion in total illusion -- Circus colors -- Court of appeal.

Sommario/riassunto

In Looking Away, Rei Terada revisits debates about appearance and reality in order to make a startling claim: that the purpose of such debates is to police feelings of dissatisfaction with the given world. Terada proposes that the connection between dissatisfaction and ephemeral phenomenality reveals a hitherto-unknown alternative to aesthetics that expresses our right to desire something other than experience "as is", even those parts of it that really cannot be otherwise.