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Philosophy, Art, and the Specters of Jacques Derrida (Hardcover, New)
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Philosophy, Art, and the Specters of Jacques Derrida (Hardcover, New)
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Although there is a significant literature on the philosophy of
Jacques Derrida, there are few analyses that address the
deconstructive critique of phenomenology as it simultaneously plays
across range of cultural productions including literature,
painting, cinema, new media, and the structure of the university.
Using the critical figures of "ghost" and "shadow"-and initiating a
vocabulary of phantomenology-this book traces the implications of
Derridean "spectrality" on the understanding of contemporary
thought, culture, and experience.This study examines the
interconnections of philosophy, art in its many forms, and the
hauntology of Jacques Derrida. Exposure is explored primarily as
exposure to the elemental weather (with culture serving as a
lean-to); exposure in a photographic sense; being over-exposed to
light; exposure to the certitude of death; and being exposed to all
the possibilities of the world. Exposure, in sum, is a kind of
necessary, dangerous, and affirmative openness.The book weaves
together three threads in order to format an image of the
contemporary exposure: 1) a critique of the philosophy of
appearances, with phenomenology and its vexed relationship to
idealism as the primary representative of this enterprise; 2) an
analysis of cultural formations-literature, cinema, painting, the
university, new media-that highlights the enigmatic necessity for
learning to read a spectrality that, since the two cannot be
separated, is both hauntological and historical; and 3) a
questioning of the role of art-as semblance, reflection, and
remains-that occurs within and alongside the space of philosophy
and of the all the "posts-" in which people find themselves.Art is
understood fundamentally as a spectral aesthetics, as a site that
projects from an exposed place toward an exposed, and therefore
open, future, from a workplace that testifies to the blast wind of
obliteration, but also in that very testimony gives a place for
ghosts to gather, to speak with each other and with humankind. Art,
which installs itself in the very heart of the ancient dream of
philosophy as its necessary companion, ensures that each phenomenon
is always a phantasm and thus we can be assured that the
apparitions will continue to speak in what Michel Serres's has
called the "grotto of miracles." This book, then, enacts the
slowness of a reading of spectrality that unfolds in the
chiaroscuro of truth and illusion, philosophy and art, light and
darkness.Scholars, students, and professional associations in
philosophy (especially of the work of Derrida, Husserl, Heidegger,
and Kant), literature, painting, cinema, new media, psychoanalysis,
modernity, theories of the university, and interdisciplinary
studies.
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