German List #: The Art of Diremption

On the Powerlessness of Art

German List #: The Art of Diremption
Leonhard Emmerling, Parnal Chirmuley
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19 Apr 2022
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9781803090344
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An engaging exploration of the meaning and power of art that looks at popular theories through the ages. One of the most astonishing aspects of the discourse on contemporary art is the firm and unwavering belief that art has the power to transform society for the better. There seems to be a consensus around the idea that art, especially visual art, is greatly suited to addressing all manner of social, political, economic, ecological, and other imbalances. Celebrated as a powerful remedy for social grievances, art finds its justification in the service it seems to provide to society. But as art historian Leonhard Emmerling contends in this timely volume, this presumptuous heroism shows willful blindness towards art' s subjugation to contradictions inherent in social relations. He argues that the narrative of the power of art has its specific history. In trying to reconstruct this history in Art of Diremption, he discovers instead art' s fundamental powerlessness as the foundation for art' s political relevance. Art is weak, argues Emmerling. It, therefore, requires an ethics of weakness, which rejects the discourse of impact and power to enable a politics of art containing the permanence of reflection, the unreliability of thought, and the emergence of form as the event of the new. With a meticulously studied and well-argued case about the "powerlessness of art," Art of Diremption will be an important contribution to the field of art, aesthetics, and philosophy.

"I"
30 April 1945: The Day Hitler Shot Himself and Germany's Integration with the West Began
Air Raid
Alice in Sussex: Mahler after Lewis Carroll and H. C. Artmann
Anarchy's Brief Summer: The Life and Death of Buenaventura Durruti
Anselm Kiefer in Conversation with Klaus Dermutz
Apostoloff
Art of Diremption, The: On the Powerlessness of Art
August
Beloved of the Dawn, The
Blumenberg
Collected Poems
Correspondence
Cox: Or the Course of Time
Dark Company: A Novel in Ten Rainy Nights
Dark Ship, The
Dispatches from Moments of Calm
Drilling Through Hard Boards: 133 Political Stories
Fire Doesn't Burn
Flowers for Otello: On the Crimes That Came Out of Jena
Flying Mountain, The
For the Dying Calves: Beyond Literature: Oxford Lectures
Fury
Gone But Not Forgotten: My Favourite Flops and Other Projects that Came to Nothing
Gramsci's Fall
Great Fall, The
Holderlin: A Play in Two Acts
I Am a Field Full of Rapeseed, Give Cover to Deer and Shine Like Thirteen Oil Paintings Laid One on Top of the Other
In Search of Lost Time: Mahler after Proust (Graphic Novel)
It All Tastes of Farewell: Diaries, 1964-1970
Jew Car, The
Killing Happiness
King of China, The
Kong's Finest Hour: A Chronicle of Connections
Loving at a Distance
Money, Money, Money!: A Short Lesson in Economics
Monsters Like Us
Night Music: Essays on Music 1928-1962
Notebooks, Volume 1, 1998-99
On Tarrying
Part of the Solution
Party Fun with Kant
Rubble Flora: Selected Poems
Sea in the Radio, The: Journal Sentences
September: Mirage
Sex of the Angels, The Saints in Their Heaven, The: A Breviary
Shadow-Boxing Woman, The
Silences of Hammerstein, The
Singers Die Twice: A Journey to the Land of Dhrupad
Squandered Advice
Starlite Terrace
Storm Still
The Fire Above, the Mountain Below
Three Plays: Philoctetes, the Horatian, Mauser
Three Plays: Rechnitz, the Merchant's Contracts, Charges (the Supplicants)
Ulysses: Mahler after Joyce
Unfinished, The
Village Indian, The
What Darkness Was
What Was Before

Leonhard Emmerling is an art historian who has worked as a curator and writer in Germany, New Zealand, and India. He currently serves as the director of the Goethe-Institut Chicago. Parnal Chirmuley is associate professor at the Centre of German Studies, School of Language Literature and Culture Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.

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