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The Ecstatic Quotidian - Phenomenological Sightings in Modern Art and Literature

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Fascination with quotidian experience in modern art, literature, and philosophy promotes ecstatic forms of reflection on the very structure of the everyday world. Gosetti-Ferencei examines the ways in which modern art and literature enable a study of how we experience quotidian life. She shows that modernism, while exhibiting many strands of development, can be understood by investigating how its attentions to perception and expectation, to the common quality of things, or to childhood play gives way to experiences of ecstasis-the stepping outside of the ordinary familiarity of the world. While phenomenology grounds this study (through Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Bachelard), what makes this book more than a treatise on phenomenological aesthetics is the way in which modernity itself is examined in its relation to the quotidian. Through the works of artists and writers such as Benjamin, Cézanne, Frost, Klee, Newman, Pollock, Ponge, Proust, Rilke, Robbe-Grillet, Rothko, Sartre, and Twombly, the world of quotidian life can be seen to harbor a latent ecstasis. The breakdown of the quotidian through and after modernism then becomes an urgent question for understanding art and literature in its capacity to further human experience, and it points to the limits of phenomenological explications of the everyday.

About the author

Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fordham University and a Clarendon Scholar at the University of Oxford.

Product details

Authors Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, Jennifer Anna (Fordham University) Gosetti-Ferencei, Gosetti-Ferencei Jennifer Anna
Publisher University Presses
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.05.2010
 
EAN 9780271032283
ISBN 978-0-271-03228-3
Dimensions 152 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
Weight 454 g
Illustrations Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
Series Literature and Philosophy
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works

Theory of art, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, ART / Criticism & Theory, Literary theory

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