| Description |
xxviii, 199 pages ; 22 cm |
| Series |
Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts |
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Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
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| Contents |
The submedial subject and the flux of signs -- The truth of the medial and the state of exception -- The media-ontological suspicion and philosophical skepticism -- The phenomenology of medial sincerity -- The gaze of the other -- The medium becomes the message -- The case of exception and the truth of the medial -- Marcel Mauss: symbolic exchange or civilization under water -- Claude Lévi-Strauss: mana or the floating signifier -- Georges Bataille: the potlatch with the sun -- Jacques Derrida: the lack of time and its ghosts -- Jean-François Lyotard: the roller-coaster of the sublime -- The time of signs -- Suspicion is the medium |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Art -- Philosophy.
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Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.
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Postmodernism.
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| LC no. |
2011047167 |
| ISBN |
9780231146180 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0231146183 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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