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Looking away : phenomenality and dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno / Rei Terada.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.Description: xii, 225 pISBN:
  • 9780674032682
  • 0674032683
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • BD352 .T47 2009
Contents:
Coleridge among the spectra -- Purple haze -- Thoughts and things -- Contemporary theories of derealization and mistrust -- Appearance and acceptance in Kant -- From mere to necessary appearance -- No fault -- The right to a phenomenal world -- Legalize it -- No right : phenomenality and self-denial in Nietzsche -- Genealogy of phenomenality -- Stolen phenomenality -- The disappearance of appearance -- Court of appeal or Adorno -- Critique of facticity -- Illusion in total illusion -- Circus colors -- Court of appeal.
Summary: "In Looking Away, Rei Terada revisits debates about appearance and reality in order to make a startling claim: that the purpose of such debates is to police feelings of dissatisfaction with the given world.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Coleridge among the spectra -- Purple haze -- Thoughts and things -- Contemporary theories of derealization and mistrust -- Appearance and acceptance in Kant -- From mere to necessary appearance -- No fault -- The right to a phenomenal world -- Legalize it -- No right : phenomenality and self-denial in Nietzsche -- Genealogy of phenomenality -- Stolen phenomenality -- The disappearance of appearance -- Court of appeal or Adorno -- Critique of facticity -- Illusion in total illusion -- Circus colors -- Court of appeal.

"In Looking Away, Rei Terada revisits debates about appearance and reality in order to make a startling claim: that the purpose of such debates is to police feelings of dissatisfaction with the given world.

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