Event overview
InC (Research Group in Continental Philosophy) Autumn Seminar Series.
Dr Nickolas Lambrianou will speak on: Hegel, in the Lectures on Aesthetics and elsewhere, asked us to consider the end of art. A century later, various early 20th century avant-gardes seemed to have wanted to make an art of non-art, a practice that was concerned with its own end, death or impossibility. At the same historical moment as dada and the readymade made their appearance, various philosophical positions examining the limits of art, aesthetics and metaphysics itself also emerged - Benjamin and Heidegger in particular.
I want to suggest that we can think both the avant-garde and philosophical questions of 'ends' simultaneously via something called dadasophy (after an image by Raul Hausmann).
Dadasophy marks a post-Hegelian dialectic of art, anti-art and anti-aesthetics; it may even be the chief suspect in the death of art. Can dadasophy help us think of the question of art and metaphysic's twin 'ends' without recourse to the habits of conventional art history or metaphysics?
Hegel Seminar Series:
The Hegel Series looks at the continuing importance of Hegelian thought on current philosophical thinking. This theme is approached through both, readings of Hegelian texts, especially those aspects of the Hegelian corpus often overlooked by established commentaries, and the investigation of the impact of Hegel’s thought on a range of Twentieth Century and contemporary philosophical writers. All the seminars are free and open to both members of Goldsmiths and the general public.
www.gold.ac.uk/.../hegelseminarseries/
Dates & times
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27 Oct 2009 | 4:00pm - 5:00pm |
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