Event overview
What use Art? A series of seminars on Art and Instrumentality
What use Art?
A series of seminars on Art and Instrumentality.
October 2011 | April 2012
InC, Continental Philosophy Research Group. University of London | http://www.gold.ac.uk/inc
The seminars will be structured around four main areas:
- Art and philosophy: the first topic interrogates the place philosophy finds for art within its own systems. Why does art often get used to solve questions of ethics, metaphysics and politics, rather than being a question for philosophy in itself?
- Use and validation: the second topic investigates the arguments for art’s validation/non- validation in relation to its description as being either useful/useless (art and education, theory and practice);
- The end of art: the third topic looks at contemporary reading of art’s death, framed in relation to its use;
- Survival: the fourth topic aims to tackle the issue surrounding the survival/non-survival of the arts in our current political environment. What art would have to do, or what use it would need to fulfil to survive, and whether this survival of the arts at all cost is to be considered desirable.
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Ian James specialises in twentieth-century and contemporary French literature and philosophy. He is the author of Pierre Klossowski: The Persistence of a Name (Oxford Legenda, 2000), The Fragmentary Demand: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Jean-Luc Nancy (Stanford University Press, 2006) and Paul Virilio (Routledge, 2007). He is also co-editor of Whispers of the Flesh: Essays in Memory of Pierre Klossowski (Diacritics, Spring 2005) and Exposures: Critical Essays on Jean-Luc Nancy (Oxford Literary Review, vol. 27, 2005). He is currently working on a project which examines the way in which the question of technology has been taken up in recent French philosophy.
Dates & times
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6 Dec 2011 | 4:00pm - 6:00pm |
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