The Aesthetics of Desire and Surprise: Phenomenology and
Speculation covers issues central to contemporary continental
philosophy (desire, expectations, excess, rupture, transcendence,
immanence, surprise). The proposed term desire||surprise captures
the phenomenological-speculative character of the pair not yet and
no longer. Non-obvious parallels between different thinkers are
drawn, and the argumentation is organized around philosophical
figures relevant in the sequence desire – excess –pause
(rupture, break) – recuperation (surprise). The works of Levinas,
Žižek, Bataille, Blanchot, Foucault, and Ricoeur are interpreted
and positioned according to the proposed template of desire -
excess - pause. The consideration of limit experiences involves
authors fascinated by transgression, and the question of whether
excess is immanent or transcendent. This discussion considers works
by Nietzsche, Deleuze, Žižek, and Foucault. The analysis of
surprise and the beginning of recovery after the pause considers
works by Fink, Merleau-Ponty, Nancy, Lyotard, Dufrenne, Bachelard,
and Seel. The provocative argument elaborated in this work is that
surprise starts with indifference. Furthermore, the argument is
that surprise begins where the concept reaches its ending, hence
that the limit of speculative thinking at its ending is the limit
of aesthetics at its beginning. The work of Hegel, Schelling and
Jaspers are discussed in order to argue for the beginning of
aesthetics there where knowledge ends. Philosophical thematic is
contextualized via sections on artists such as Duchamp and
Mondrian, and on some films, provoking interest of aestheticians
working in art history and cultural studies departments.
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