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5.0 out of 5 stars
a good place to start with Badiou,
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This review is from: Handbook Of Inaesthetics (Paperback)
His Ethics book was intriguing, but somewhat too breezy for my taste; the Manifesto seemed a little scattered and didn't successfully engage my interest. This book, Badiou's little Handbook of the Inaesthetic, is altogether more satisfying. It has a very congenial density to it and it works well in that French way, shuttling between the revelatory and the obscure. So, you have here a very readable contribution to aesthetics in a post-Lacanian, post-Heideggerian mode. Badiou does original thinking within that mode, so I think this book should have something to offer even to those who are fairly well read in this stuff.
Badiou grounds his discussions in readings of Mallarme (and others: Pessoa, Celan, Beckett), but his aim is a philosophical one, so the book is addressed to a broader audience than just Mallarme scholars. Whereas in the Ethics book his art examples came from music (Haydn, Schoenberg) and theater (Hamlet), here the examples are predominantly from poets, and occasionally from film and theater. He also writes about dance, but concludes that "art" is not quite the name for what dance is. The book is not very much concerned to give an explicit overview of Badiou's thought, but the general outlines can be inferred and because it is so successful in its own terms, it might be a pretty good place to start with Badiou. Recommended! |
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Handbook Of Inaesthetics by Alain Badiou (Paperback - October 19, 2004)
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