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Dag Petersson offers a comprehensive critique of the philosophy that has dominated 200 years of modern thought, politics, economy, and culture. The basic question is this: why does dialectical metaphysics fail to keep what it promises? What is it about dialectics, that makes it fall into irreducibly distinct variations of itself, when all it promises is to synthesize, to reconcile and make whole what is fragmented and alien to itself? An undisciplined creativity intrinsic to completing reason comes to light through analyses of how dialectical systems begin. Every dialectical philosophy must account for its own birth, and it is at this point, when it also articulates its promise of universal synthesis, that the book discovers a desire for light-writing, or photography. Only the most immediate element light can mediate the necessary self-determination of thought at its origin. Light must begin to write. A philosophical critique of dialectics is therefore also a point of departure for a new aesthetic ontology of photography.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Part I
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Part II
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Front Matter
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Part III
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Back Matter
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Dag Petersson is Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, Denmark. He has previosuly been Senior Researcher at the Danish Royal Library and lecturer at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Jacob A. Riis (2008), and co-editor of Actualities of Aura: Twelve Studies of Walter Benjamin (2005).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Art of Reconciliation
Book Subtitle: Photography and the Conception of Dialectics in Benjamin, Hegel, and Derrida
Authors: Dag Petersson
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137029942
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-02993-5Published: 14 May 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-44027-6Published: 01 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-02994-2Published: 14 May 2013
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 315
Topics: Arts, Philosophy, general, Philosophy of Religion, History of Philosophy, Aesthetics, Photography