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008			120711s2013 nyu o 00 0 eng d
020			_a9780823250318
020			_z9780823245406 (hardback)
020			_z0823245403
040			_aMdBmJHUP _cMdBmJHUP
050	0	0	_aNX180.H59 _b.P53 2013
082	0	0	_a700/.458405318 _223
100	1		_aPickford, Henry W.
245	1	4	_aThe sense of semblance _h[electronic resource] : _bphilosophical analyses of Holocaust art / _cHenry W. Pickford.
260			_aNew York : _bFordham University Press, _c2013. _e(Baltimore, Md. : _fProject MUSE, _g2015)
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 280 pages :) _billustrations ;
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 253-272) and index.
520			_a"Drawing on work in contemporary analytic philosophy and Adorno's normative aesthetic theory, this book aims to show how selected Holocaust artworks in a variety of media (lyric poetry by Paul Celan, Holocaust memorials, quotational texts by Heimrad Bc̃ker, Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah and Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus) fulfill both aesthetic and historical requirements of the genre"-- _cProvided by publisher.
520			_a"Holocaust artworks intuitively must fulfill at least two criteria: artistic (lest they be merely historical documents) and historical (lest they distort the Holocaust or become merely artworks). The Sense of Semblance locates this problematic within philosophical aesthetics, as a version of the conflict between aesthetic autonomy and heteronomy, and argues that Adorno's dialectic of aesthetic semblance describes the normative demand that artworks maintain a dynamic tension between the two. The Sense of Semblance aims to move beyond familiar debates surrounding postmodernism by demonstrating the usefulness of contemporary theories of meaning and understanding, including those from the analytic tradition. Pickford shows how the causal theory of names, the philosophy of tacit knowledge, the analytic philosophy of quotation, Sartre's theory of the imaginary, the epistemology of testimony, and Walter Benjamin's dialectical image can help explicate how individual artworks fulfill artistic and historical desiderata. In close readings of Celan's poetry, Holocaust memorials in Berlin, the quotational artist Heimrad Backer, Claude Lanzmann's film Shoah, and Art Spiegelman's graphic novel Maus, Pickford offers interpretations that, in their precision, specificity, and clarity, inaugurate a dialogue between contemporary analytic philosophy and contemporary art. The Sense of Semblance is the first book to incorporate contemporary analytic philosophy in interpretations of art and architecture, literature, and film about the Holocaust"-- _cProvided by publisher.
588			_aDescription based on print version record.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Holocaust. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. _2bisacsh
650		0	_aHolocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), and the arts.
655		7	_aElectronic books. _2local
710	2		_aProject Muse.
856	4	0	_zFull text available: _uhttps://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823250318/
942			_2Dewey Decimal Classification _ceBooks
999			_c32186 _d32186