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ART AT THE LIMITS OF PERCEPTION - JEROME CARROL...

This book traces the significance that the modulations of sensory perception have had for
thinking about aesthetics and art in the last two and a half centuries. Beyond a discussion of
the philosophical significance of beauty  or of the puzzle of aesthetic representation 
aesthetics is conceived broadly as a means of describing our relationship to the world in terms
of the habits of perception  and indeed the overturning of these habits  as in the modernist
aesthetic of defamiliarisation. In the light of the ideas of the contemporary German aesthetic
theorist  Wolfgang Welsch  this book offers the first discussion of the theory and practice of
art that operates at the poles of perception: sensory experience that exceeds conceptual
organisation  and the imperceptible  or what Welsch calls the 'anaesthetic'. These seemingly
opposite poles have many parallels: a comparable indeterminacy of meaning and a similar
challenge to representation  but also a shared focus on the habits and modulations of sensory
perception and a similar interrogation of the boundary between art and that which surrounds it.
The author applies the categories discussed to art practice  in particular to the theatre of
Peter Handke  Samuel Beckett and Heiner Müller.

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