The Aesthetic Subject in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Literature : Thinking the Body-Thought (Paperback)

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Butler on the body not given, Lyotard on body-thought and the aesthetic subject

1. Irigaray on the limits of the homely figuration of the unhomely subject

2. Badiou on the aesthetic subject’s intimations of the void

3. Nancy on sense and the disidentification of the aesthetic subject

4. Perniola on visuality as a mode of sense: Between an ideal of being and formless nonbeing

5. Sloterdijk on the body’s indifference to the supposed mastery of consciousness

6. Ranciere on the body as a political figure of order in the shared life of the aesthetic subject

Index