This Great Allegory: On World-Decay and World-Opening in the Work of Art (Paperback)

Introduction: The Work of Art and the Notion of World 1
1 The Work of Art between World-Decay and World-Opening (Heidegger, Hölderlin) 31
2 Of Cave Worlds and the Birth of the Artwork in Painting and Film (Blanchot, Bataille, Werner Herzog) 69
3 The Work for a Time without Me and the World Stepping toward Us (Levinas, Celan) 103
4 Inheriting the World of the Subcutaneous Musical Artwork (Adorno, Schöberg) 121
5 A World of Gray: Color, Grayness, and Utopia in the Work of Art (Adorno) 151
6 Conjoining the Intimate with the Infinite: On World-Decay in the Photographic Work of Art (Benjamin, Andrew Moore) 171
7 Troubled Origins: Accounting for Oneself as World-Creation (Derrida, Botho Strauß, Didier Eribon) 203
8 Keep Yourself Alive: The World of Life Death and the Work of Mourning (Derrida, Nietzsche, Kafka) 233
9 Changing the World Is Not What You Think (Marx) 259
Coda: Intermundia, Finitude 287
Acknowledgments 293
Notes 295
List of Illustrations 315
Index 317