Productive Digression : : Theorizing Practice / / Anselm Haverkamp.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Haverkamp, Anselm,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Paradigms : Literature and the Human Sciences , 5
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (XII, 234 p.)

Productive Digression is a translation of the ancient term poetics: as a practice of theory. The products produced in the mode of poiesis are ‘digressive’ in that they operate off track; they resist the main stream of every day prose. They do so for various reasons and in various respects. Mostly, they are explained historically, relative to historical contexts and, that is, contrary to what they are meant to resist. Instead, this book investigates the modes of resistance, their epistemology of production, in short, the logic of digression. The method addresses the singular exemplarity of art and literature; it elucidates the impact of poiesis as an epistemological challenge and redefines the analysis of literature and art as branches of an Historical Epistemology. Proceeding from the state of affairs in 20th century criticism and aesthetics (Benjamin, Adorno, Blumenberg, Merleau-Ponty), the epistemology of representation (Whitehead, Canguilhem, Bachelard, Rheinberger) is revised in, and with respect to critical consequences (Derrida, Marin, de Man, Agamben). From literary criticism and critical legal studies to the scenario of the life sciences, the essays collected here redirect the logic of research towards the epistemological grounds of an aesthetics underneath the hermeneutics of every day life.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Equivalence Unbalanced -- Art Awaits Its Explanation -- The Scandal of Metaphorology -- Blumenberg in Davos -- Art is Messianicity: Radical Illustration in the Face of God -- The Phaocentrism of the Eye -- Confessio Infirmitatis or Productive Digression -- In/Doors: The Dialectic of Inside and Outside -- To Conceive of, in Pictures -- Christ’s Case -- To Destroy Painting: The Baroque Caesura of History -- Chaos by Design -- Mass Times Acceleration -- A Narrow Thing Within One Word -- Life in the Sonnets -- Mirror Effects in Euphantasy Land -- Index of Names