The genius decision : the extraordinary and the postmodern condition /

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Author / Creator:Ottmann, Klaus.
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
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ISBN:0882145754 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
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