The genius decision : the extraordinary and the postmodern condition /
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| Author / Creator: | Ottmann, Klaus. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | Putnam, Conn. : Spring Publications, 2004. |
| Description: | 181 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5201493 |
Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Argument
- 1. The Question of Genius
- 2. Physical and Accidental Genius vs. the Genius Decision
- 3. The Sensus Communis Aestheticus and the Resolve of the Antinomy of Taste
- 4. The Question of the Extraordinary
- Part 2. Exposition
- 1. Kafka and the Pressing of the Abject
- Writing As Failure
- The Theory of Abjection
- Abject, Jouissance, and the Mirror Stage
- The Paradoxes of Jouissance
- 2. Spinoza's Amor Dei Intellectualis (Discourse on Jouissance I)
- Spinoza's Theory of Knowledge
- Spinoza's Discourse on Jouissance
- The Deferred Sacrifice
- 3. Kierkegaard's Theory of the Leap (Discourse on Jouissance II)
- Kierkegaard's Subjective Minimalism
- Form As Ideology
- The Case of Abraham
- The Genius and the Apostle
- Kierkegaard and the Sacrifice of Jouissance
- Kierkegaard's Active-Passive Leap
- Wheeler's Delayed-Choice Experiment and the Collapse of Uncertainty
- Kierkegaard's Failure
- 4. Nietzsche's Active Aesthetic and the Ur-Eine (Discourse on Jouissance III)
- Nietzsche and the Ecstasy of Communication
- Nietzsche's Active-Reactive Aesthetic
- The Ur-Eine: Nietzsche's Substratum of Desire
- Nietzsche's Apologia for Slavery in the Name of Jouissance
- 5. Wittgenstein's Leap (Discourse on Jouissance IV)
- Certitude
- The Ladder of Certitude
- Standing Fast While Running Against the Boundary of Language
- 6. Heidegger's Being and Abject (Discourse on Jouissance V)
- The End of All World Pictures
- The Failure of Philosophy
- Nothingness as Abject
- The De-cision
- Part 3. Conclusion
- 2. The Question of the Postmodern
- 1. The Antinomy of Aesthetic Semblance and the Paradoxes of the Genius Decision
- Index