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Book SynopsisTrade Review"...the broad vision and range of aesthetic topics addressed on a persistently high level deserves not only attention but respect...The fact that the book is also a joy to read makes it even more refreshing." —
Bryn Mawr Review of Comparative LiteratureTable of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Preface @toc2:I.A Rough History of Modern Aesthetics @toc3:1.Eight Short Stories @toc3a:Baumgarten Kant Hegel Schopenhauer Nietzsche Valery Heidegger Adorno @toc3:2.Aesthetics as Part of Philosophy @toc2:II.Aesthetics of Appearing @toc3a:Time for the Moment A Situation of Perception The Basic Distinction The Course of Things @toc3:1.What Is Appearing @toc3a:Kinds of Perception Phenomenal Individuality Synaesthesia Recalling Presence Everything, at All Times A Minimal Concept @toc3:2.Being-so and Appearing @toc3a:A Definition Objects of Perception Appearance Appearing Logical and Phenomenal Order Limits of Knowledge Indeterminacy A Different Execution of Perception Event Objects @toc3:3.Appearing and Semblance @toc3a:Two Concepts, Two Steps Deceptive or Supportive Semblance James Turrell: Slow Dissolve Semblance Is Real Not Everything Is Semblance @toc3:4.Appearing and Imagination @toc3a:Imagination Objects of Sensuous Consciousness Aesthetic Imagination Imagination and Semblance An Asymmetry Objects of Imagination Imagination, Interpretation, Reflection Facultative and Constitutive Objects of Imagination A Primacy of Perception @toc3:5.Situations of Appearing @toc3a:Interim Results Three Dimensions Mere Appearing Atmospheric Appearing Artistic Appearing Presences Modes of Acquaintance Aesthetic Consciousness @toc3:6.Constellations of Art @toc3a:The Material and Medium of the Arts Constellational Presentation Valery's and Chandler's Sentence Levels of Sensuousness Danto's Objection Art as Idea as Idea Vertical Earth Kilometer Movements in Literature The Body of Texts The Father of the Thought @toc3:7.A Play for Presence @toc2:III.Flickering and Resonating: Borderline Experiences Outside and Inside Art 000 @toc3a:Kant Nietzsche Transcendence and Immanence Rauschen and Rausch Mere Versus Artistic Resonating An Occurrence Without Something Occurring Formless Reality An Enduring Passing Away Formed Formlessness Some Genres Christoph Marthaler's Faust Being and Revealing Energies of the Artwork Cinematic Resonating The Children of the Dead Elfriede Jelinek's Language A Limit Case of Consciousness @toc2:IV.Thirteen Statements on the Picture 000 @toc3a:Pictures Are Presentations Pictorial Signs Are Not (Just) Symptoms Pictures Are Compact Signs Subsidiary Forms of the Picture The Self-Referentiality of Art Pictures All Pictures Present; Most Pictures Represent Representation and Similarity Pictures Are Sign Events The Phenomenological and the Semiotic Theory of the Picture Three Basic Instances of Seeing Cyberspace Is Not Pictorial Space Film, a Virtual Movement Space Picture and Reality @toc2:V.Variations on Art and Violence 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Bibliography 000
