1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786195203321

Autore

Pickford Henry W

Titolo

The sense of semblance [[electronic resource] ] : philosophical analyses of Holocaust art / / Henry W. Pickford

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8232-4543-8

0-8232-5077-6

0-8232-5031-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Classificazione

LIT004210PHI001000HIS043000

Disciplina

700/.458405318

Soggetti

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Judgment of Holocaust Art -- 2. Conflict and Commemoration -- 3. The Aesthetics of Historical Quotation -- 4. The Aesthetic-Historical Imaginary: -- Conclusion: The Morality of Holocaust Art -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Holocaust artworks intuitively must fulfill at least two criteria: artistic (lest they be merely historical documents) and historical (lest they distort the Holocaust or become merely artworks). The Sense of Semblance locates this problematic within philosophical aesthetics, as a version of the conflict between aesthetic autonomy and heteronomy, and argues that Adorno's dialectic of aesthetic semblance describes the normative demand that artworks maintain a dynamic tension between the two. The Sense of Semblance aims to move beyond familiar debates surrounding postmodernism by demonstrating the usefulness of contemporary theories of meaning and understanding, including those from the analytic tradition. Pickford shows how the causal theory of names, the philosophy of tacit knowledge, the analytic philosophy of quotation, Sartre's theory of the imaginary, the epistemology of testimony, and Walter Benjamin's dialectical image can help explicate how individual artworks fulfill artistic and historical desiderata. In close readings of Celan's poetry, Holocaust memorials in Berlin, the quotational artist Heimrad Backer, Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah, and



Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus, Pickford offers interpretations that, in their precision, specificity, and clarity, inaugurate a dialogue between contemporary analytic philosophy and contemporary art. The Sense of Semblance is the first book to incorporate contemporary analytic philosophy in interpretations of art and architecture, literature, and film about the Holocaust"--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812643703321

Autore

Fanon Joby <1923->

Titolo

Frantz Fanon, my brother : doctor, playwright, revolutionary / / Joby Fanon ; translated by Daniel Nethery

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-7391-8049-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (156 p.)

Collana

Critical Africana Studies : African, African American, and Caribbean Interdisciplinary and Intersectional Studies

Disciplina

965/.046092

Soggetti

Revolutionaries - Algeria

Intellectuals - Algeria

Psychiatrists - Algeria

Algeria Biography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frantz Fanon, My Brother; Contents; Foreword; 1. Preface; 2. Our Family; 3. Our Youth in Fort-de-France; 4. Our Schooling during the War; 5. Dissidence; 6. The Soldier; 7. Frantz and His Family; 8. Return to Martinique after the War; 9. Studies in France; 10. The Death of Our Father; 11. A Vacation in Nantua; 12. The Playwright; 13. Black Skin, White Masks; 14. The General Practitioner; 15. Blida; 16. Gabrielle; 17. The First Congress of Black Writers; 18. The Second Congress; 19. Tunis; 20. A Telegram; 21. Death and Burial; 22. Fanon and Martinique; 23. Fanon and Humanism; Notes

BibliographyIndex



Sommario/riassunto

Frantz Fanon stands as one of the most uncompromising critics of racism and colonialism. Translated into English by Daniel Nethery, this biography by Fanon''s brother, Joby, is an intimate, passionate, and very human account of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century.