At Odds With Aids: Thinking and Talking About a Virus (Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics)

What does it mean to oppose AIDS, to be at odds with AIDS? What kind of rupture with history does AIDS represent? How does AIDS and what is said about AIDS relate to gay identity? How does AIDS relate to thinking and acting, particularly deconstructive thinking? The author confronts these questions from a broad philosophical background that ranges from Kant, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Heidegger to contemporary thought concerning gay activism and AIDS research, all brought together in an effort to find a philosophical language capable of doing justice to the singularity of lived experience in the shadow of AIDS. In examining what AIDS reveals about the conditions of existence, García Düttmann develops the idea of the “dis-unity” or “at-odds-ness” of existence, of the “non-belonging” that characterizes the marginalized, outcast, or abandoned, and exposes human existence itself. He analyzes what AIDS reveals about the character of history through two intertwined issues. First, he examines arguments bearing on the epochal significance of AIDS, the idea that AIDS reveals something uniquely characteristic of our time, hence that the epidemic marks a historical caesura. Second, he develops a theory of historical witnessing suggesting that the phenomena of historical event and bearing witness are not at all separate, but instead are co-originary, inhering in the same complex.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

García Düttmann, Alexander

Diseases & Physical Ailments

Stanford University Press

Medical Books

Medicine

Something needs to be changed―be it through the revolutionary overthrow of social conditions, the liberating force of passion, the contemplation and creation of works of art, or the exploration of an unresolved past. Luchino Visconti's films are models for the failure of such attempts. They show that this failure arises whenever people cling to possibilities that stand opposed to the reality of their lives. Does Adorno not write: "The place of utopia is blocked off by possibility, never by immediate reality"? Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood draws on aesthetics, film theory, and practical philosophy to propose an original interpretation of the melodramas of a great European director. In the encounter with Visconti's art, we come to see that something has changed already.

Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood

Humor & Entertainment

Movies

A series of philosophical meditations on the nature of aesthetics across a wide array of filmmaking styles\nImages, whether filmic or not, cannot be replaced by words. Yet words can make images. This is the general thesis underlying So What, a collection of essays on canonical filmmakers like Luchino Visconti and Orson Welles; more experimental directors, such as Marguerite Duras and Albert Serra; and visual artists, including Hollis Frampton and Agnes Martin. Alexander García Düttmann aims to make their films as if they did not precede his text, capturing their idea and experience.\nIf the relationship between filmic image and text is a heterogeneous one, then this heterogeneity must leave a trace. This is why the book’s chapters are organized not according to historical periods or on the basis of film theories but rather by single concepts that function like dictionary entries. The chapters adopt different forms, blurring the lines between art and philosophy. So What is a practical exercise in “making films with words,” inviting readers to draw out insights from its conceptual play.\nSo What compiles previously untranslated and hard-to-find essays into a single volume, one that represents the absorbing and singular thought process of a major contemporary philosopher.

So What, or How to Make Films with Words (Superimpositions)

García Düttmann, Prof. Alexander

Northwestern University Press

In this book Alexander Garcia Duttman explores and expands the works of Heidegger, Rosenzweig, Adorno, Benjamin, and Derrida. Out of his very fresh and pointed re-reading, he uncovers a peculiar correspondence of obsessions, interests, and priorities between these diverse twentieth century philosophies. And from these discoveries Duttman details a singular philosophical theory of memory and promise. Duttman's methodology is as groundbreaking as his discoveries. Alan Udoff writes: This is not an exposition in the conventional sense: a scholarly, historical report, with some attempt at criticism. Rather, it is at every turn a thinking through of certain texts, a thinking that, in putting questions to the texts ... reveals or releases what is ... stored in those texts. Duttman's questions are so philosophically and theologically penetrating that the reader is set out in new direction of thinking. While Duttman's book helps the reader achieve a new understanding of the gift of language in the works of Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger, and Rosenzweig, his study also is fraught with implications for reading Derrida, Deleuze, Levinas and Lyotard.

The Gift of Language: Memory and Promise in Adorno, Benjamin, Heidegger, and Rosenzweig (Library of Jewish Philosophy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Düttmann, Alexander García

Philosophy

Syracuse University Press

La parole donnée. Mémoire et promesse (0000)

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

GALILEE

(English / Chinese / German) Volume 4.2 of Michael Müller's catalogue raisonné is devoted exclusively to the large-format, 126-part work Lektüre und Ablenkung(2016/17), which belongs to the group of works known as indexes. Thebasis for the index presented in this volume is Jacques Derrida's book Vom Geist.But far more than the content of that publication, Müller is interestedin the inevitable distractions that arise during the intense reading ofa book. Meticulously documented, elaborated and developed in a varietyof media - from text notes to drawings and photographs to mathematicalnotations - the distractions integrated into the work unfold a complexweb of references, categorisations and relationships that uncoverstructures of the digressive mind. Band 4.2 des Werkverzeichnisses von Michael Müller widmet sich ausschließlich der großformatigen, 126-teiligen Arbeit Lektüre und Ablenkung(2016/17), die zu der Werkgruppe der sogenannten Indexe gehört.Grundlage für den in diesem Buch vorgestellten Index ist JacquesDerridas Buch Vom Geist. Doch viel mehr als den Inhalt desBandes interessieren Müller die unvermeidlichen Ablenkungen, die sichbei der intensiven Lektüre eines Buches in den Vordergrund drängen.Akribisch dokumentiert, weitergeführt und in den verschiedensten Medienausgearbeitet - von Textnotizen über Zeichnungen und Fotografien hin zumathematischen Notationen -, entfalten die in das Werk integriertenAblenkungen ein vielschichtiges Netzwerk aus Verweisen,Kategorisierungen und Beziehungen, die Strukturen des abschweifendenGeistes offenlegen.

Michael Müller. Ernstes Spiel. Catalogue Raisonné: Vol. 4.2, Lektüre und Ablenkung

Arts & Photography

Tyradellis, Daniel

History & Criticism

Deutscher Kunstverlag (DKV)

Das Gedächtnis des Denkens: Versuch über Heidegger und Adorno (German Edition)

Suhrkamp

Juzgar el arte contemporáneo / Judging Contemporary Art: Simposio internacional / International symposium

Roelstraete, Dieter

Menke, Christoph

Kunst, Bojana

Rebentisch, Juliane

Voss, Christiane

Univ Públic Navarra/Nafarroako Unib Publik

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