Art Disarming Philosophy: Non-philosophy and Aesthetics

Author:   Steven Shakespeare ,  Niamh Malone ,  Gary Anderson
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
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Pages:   286
Publication Date:   23 September 2021
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Art Disarming Philosophy: Non-philosophy and Aesthetics


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Nonphilosophy poses a challenge to philosophical thought, inspired by the work of François Laruelle. It questions the idea that philosophy, or other disciplines, can tell us what it means to think. This edited collection brings together an internationally known and interdisciplinary group of scholars, including a major new essay by Laruelle himself. Together they use nonphilosophy to cross the boundaries between philosophy and performance. Philosophers have been busy for centuries looking for the foundations of truth, value, and reality. They try to say what it all means and how it all fits together. Areas of life like science and art have to wait for the philosopher to show up to tell them what they are really about. Theory dictates meaning: performance just puts it into effect. Nonphilosophy is different. It says that reality is not an object out there that we can think and understand. The Real is the place we stand: it is where we think from. Crucially, nonphilosophy understands philosophy itself to be performative. It enacts modes of thinking that do not dominate the material of thought and do not capture the Real in concepts. Philosophy is mutated by its performances; and performances themselves think, are modes of theory. What happens when we bring philosophy, art, and performance together, without hierarchy? How can they get inside and change one another? The thinkers in this collection answer these pressing questions.

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Author:   Steven Shakespeare ,  Niamh Malone ,  Gary Anderson
Publisher:   Rowman & Littlefield
Imprint:   Rowman & Littlefield
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.653kg
ISBN:  

9781538147467


ISBN 10:   1538147467
Pages:   286
Publication Date:   23 September 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Chapter 1: ‘Art Saved or Destroyed by its Works’ by François Laruelle Chapter 2: ‘Opening the Circle: Performance Philosophy &/as a radical equality of attention’ by Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca Chapter 3: ‘Art and Philosophy: New solidarities’ by Alice Rekab and Anne-Françoise Schmid Chapter 4: ‘Plastic Matters: Lydia Clark’s Non-art and Other Non-philosophical Relations’ by Annalaura Alifuoco Chapter 5: ‘Changing the world with non-philosophy or Laruelle and art-activism’ by Gary Anderson Chapter 6: ‘Performing nonhuman language: ‘humaneity’ in Ron Athey’s Gifts of the Spirit: Automatic Writing’ by Hannah Lammin Chapter 7: ‘Out of the Ordinary: On Laruelle and the Mystic Performances of Mina Bergson’ by John Ó Maoilearca Chapter 8: ‘Art, (Non-)Philosophy, and Quantum-Mechanical Complementarity’ by Edia Connole Chapter 9: ‘Joyful Discontinuity: The Radical Immanence of Dementia’ by Niamh Malone ‘The Generative Tone: Musical Disruptions of Philosophy’s Tissue’ by Steven Shakespeare Chapter 10: ‘Pointless: Art at the End of the World’ by Anthony Paul Smith Index

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Steven Shakespeare is senior lecturer in philosophy at Liverpool Hope University. He works in the area of continental philosophy of religion and has written on Kierkegaard, Derrida, and black metal theory. He is author of a number of books, including Kierkegaard and the Refusal of Transcendence. Niamh Malone is senior lecturer in drama at Liverpool Hope University. She has published in the areas of applied theatre and dementia, community theatre, storytelling/narrative and identity, global cities, and urban regeneration. She is the managing director of the Hope Graduate Theatre Company and is currently facilitating a three year project entitled “Forgotten Futures and the City” with residents of nursing homes in Liverpool. Gary Anderson coorganizes The Institute for the Art and Practice of Dissent at Home (www.dissentathome.org) and is a senior lecturer in drama at Liverpool Hope University. He is the author of Four Boys [for Beuys] and coeditor of Performance Research On Children. He also runs the Study Room in Exile in collaboration with the Live Art Development Agency.

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