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This work considers the status of art in the modern era. It takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation, that it is no longer through art that Spirit principally comes to knowledge of itself.

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Translator's notes 1. The most uncanny thing 2. Frenhofer and his double 3. The man of taste and the dialectic of the split 4. The cabinet of wonder 5. 'Les jugements sur la poe;sie ont plus de valeur que la poe;sie' 6. A self-annihilating nothing 7. Privation is like a face 8. Poiesis and praxis 9. The original structure of the work of art 10. The melancholy angel Notes.

The Man without Content Meridian Crossing

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      Publisher Stanford University Press
      Published 1 June 1999
      ISBN-13 9780804735544
      978-0804735544
      ISBN-10 0804735549
      Also in:
      Western philosophy from c 1800 Books by Giorgio Agamben

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This work considers the status of art in the modern era. It takes seriously Hegel's claim that art has exhausted its spiritual vocation, that it is no longer through art that Spirit principally comes to knowledge of itself.

      Table of Contents
      Translator's notes 1. The most uncanny thing 2. Frenhofer and his double 3. The man of taste and the dialectic of the split 4. The cabinet of wonder 5. 'Les jugements sur la poe;sie ont plus de valeur que la poe;sie' 6. A self-annihilating nothing 7. Privation is like a face 8. Poiesis and praxis 9. The original structure of the work of art 10. The melancholy angel Notes.

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