Cutting across literature, film, art, and philosophy, Art of the
Ordinary is a trailblazing, cross-disciplinary engagement with the
ordinary and the everyday. Because, writes Richard Deming, the
ordinary is always at hand, it is, in fact, too familiar for us to
perceive it and become fully aware of it. The ordinary he argues,
is what most needs to be discovered and yet is something that can
never be approached, since to do so is to immediately change it.
Art of the Ordinary explores how philosophical questions can be
revealed in surprising places-as in a stand-up comic's routine, for
instance, or a Brillo box, or a Hollywood movie. From negotiations
with the primary materials of culture and community, ways of
reading "self" and "other" are made available, deepening one's
ability to respond to ethical, social, and political dilemmas.
Deming picks out key figures, such as the philosophers Stanley
Cavell, Arthur Danto, and Richard Wollheim; poet John Ashbery;
artist Andy Warhol; and comedian Steven Wright, to showcase the
foundational concepts of language, ethics, and society. Deming
interrogates how acts of the imagination by these people, and
others, become the means for transforming the alienated ordinary
into a presence of the everyday that constantly and continually
creates opportunities of investment in its calls on interpretive
faculties. In Art of the Ordinary, Deming brings together the arts,
philosophy, and psychology in new and compelling ways so as to
offer generative, provocative insights into how we think and
represent the world to others as well as to ourselves.
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