Politics and Heideggers Concept of Thinking in Contemporary Art

Responding to Heidegger's stark warnings concerning the essence of technology, this book demonstrates art's capacity to emancipate the life-world from globalized technological consciousness.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Heidegger’s articulation of Care in "The Question Concerning Technology"; 2. Walter Benjamin and the Disruptive Reproduction; 3. Martha Rosler: Bringing the War Home: Ethico-Political Collaborative Art Practice; 4. Fashioning Truth from Fiction and Memory: The Essence of Truth Interpreted Through the Work of Boltanski and Wodiczko; 5. Technologized Truth: The Ambiguity of Truth/Non-Truth in the Work of Mirza and Butler; Conclusion

About the author

Louise Carrie Wales, PhD, formerly art department leader at the United Nations International School, currently lives in Connecticut and works at GCDS.

Summary

Responding to Heidegger’s stark warnings concerning the essence of technology, this book demonstrates art’s capacity to emancipate the life-world from globalized technological consciousness.

Product details

• Authors: Louise Carrie Wales
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781032003863
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3200386-3
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Research in Art and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, Philosophy: aesthetics, Political campaigning & advertising, Political campaigning and advertising, The arts: general topics