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Sites of exposure art, politics, and the nature of experience
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Sites of exposure [electronic resource] : art, politics, and the nature of experience / John Russon.
ISBN
0253029414
9780253029416
9780253029256
Published
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2017] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Physical Description
1 online resource (1 PDF (xii, 193 pages) :) : color illustrations.
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Summary
John Russon draws from a broad range of art and literature to show how philosophy speaks to the most basic and important questions in our everyday lives. In Sites of Exposure, Russon grapples with how personal experiences such as growing up and confronting death combine with broader issues such as political oppression, economic exploitation, and the destruction of the natural environment to make life meaningful. His is cutting-edge philosophical work, illuminated by original and rigorous thinking that relies on cross-cultural communication and engagement with the richness of human cultural history. These probing interpretations of the nature of phenomenology, the philosophy of art, history, and politics, are appropriate for students and scholars of philosophy at all levels.
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Project MUSE - 2017 Complete.
Project MUSE - 2017 Philosophy and Religion.
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Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 20, 2017
Series
Studies in Continental thought
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-185) and index.
Contents
Introduction
1. Portraits
Lesson 1 : on being a subject
Lesson 2 : the event of experience and the advent of meaning
Lesson 3 : things
2. Home
Lesson 4 : accommodation
Lesson 5 : home with others
Lesson 6 : inhabiting language
3. Exposure
Lesson 7 : the ambivalence of being at home
Lesson 8 : the environment of indifference
A. Indifference, relative and absolute
B. Cultural specificity
C. Indifferent universality and its problems
Lesson 9 : sugchōrein : domestic politics and civic ecology
A. The freedom of belonging and the role of the state
B. The challenge of multiculturalism
C. The goal of political life
4. Thanksgiving
Lesson 10 : conscience : calling and madness
Lesson 11 : art as the celebration of the now
Lesson 12 : thanksgiving as practice
Appendix : notes for further study.
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