Art at the limits of perception : the aesthetic theory of Wolfgang Welsch.

Absolut sauber, neuwertig. Contents Acknowledgements 7 Introduction Transcendental or marginal aesthetics 9 Chapter One Aesthetics beyond aesthetics: the theoretical contribution ofWolfgang Welsch 19 Aisthesis: the return to the sensory 20 Asthetisierungsprozesse: excess, surface or perfection 24 Welsch's An�hetik 36 Anaesthetics and the return to art: three concepts of art 46 Chapter Two The sensory and super-sensory: Wolf gang Welsch's precursors in philosophical aesthetics 57 Alexander Baumgarten's 'sensory knowledge' 59 Immanuel Kant's transcendental aesthetics 71 Early Romantic thought: particularity and negativity 77 Viktor Shklovsky and marginal aesthetics 84 Cognitive aesthetics: retrieving the distrusted subject 91 Chapter Three Welsch and the aesthetics ofthe sublime 101 The historical significance ofthe sublime 104 Welsch on the sublime I: Adorno's 'Rehabilitierung des Erhabenen' 112 Adorno on the sublime: dialectical autonomy 120 Welsch on the sublime II: Lyotard, plurality and immanence 135 Jean-Fran ois Lyotard's postmodern sublimes Chapter Four The ideo1ogy ofthe anaesthetic 161 Philosophical aesthetics: negativity and ideology 164 Non-perception and the self 172 The turn against representation and the dialectic of art and the everyday 177 Whither the sensory? Marcuse III 184 Chapter Five App1ied anaesthetics: theart ofthe imperceptib1e 193 Dismantled drama: a radical tradition 194 Samuel Beckett's late theatre: sense beyond meaning 197 Peter Handke: anti-reference and non-perception 208 Beckett, Handke, and Welsch's anaesthetics 223 Chapter Six Theatre of excess: a 'poetry of the senses ' 231 Radical aisthesis: a counter-tradition 231 Heiner M�ller: anti-minimal ist 235 The corporeal as formal method 243 Closing remarks: the corporeal and Welsch's aesthetics 261 Conclusion Bibliography ISBN 9783039105694