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The Power of Art

Suhrkamp | Insel
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Spanish world rights (Metales Pesados), Chinese simplex rights (Nanjing UP), Korea (W. Media), Turkey (Hece)


The Power of Art / Die Kraft der Kunst
Art has never been so visible, present and malleable as it is today, and at the same time it has also never been part of such a sheer number of social processes: art is a commodity, a conversation, an opinion, an awareness, an act. The societal omnipresence of art accompanies the increasing lack of that we might call aesthetic power.


»Power« – distinct from our »rational powers« – refers here to the unconscious, playful, enthusiastic condition that art...

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Art has never been so visible, present and malleable as it is today, and at the same time it has also never been part of such a sheer number of social processes: art is a commodity, a conversation, an opinion, an awareness, an act. The societal omnipresence of art accompanies the increasing lack of that we might call aesthetic power.


»Power« – distinct from our »rational powers« – refers here to the unconscious, playful, enthusiastic condition that art requires in order to exist. Philosophical reflection on this condition leads Christoph Menke to the designation of aesthetic categories – artwork, beauty, judgment – and to a sketch of an aesthetic politics, meaning a politics of freedom from social practice, and equality without provisions.

The Power of Art is about our power. It is about the freedom from the social practice of subjectivity. The Power of Art is about our freedom.

 

»Art is ›the art of the passage between ability and power, between power and ability.‹ On this principle, Menke assembles a theory of art that is compulsory reading for anyone concerned with aesthetics.« DIE ZEIT

»Art is ›the art of the passage between ability and power, between power and ability.‹ On this principle, Menke assembles a theory of art that is compulsory reading for anyone concerned with aesthetics.« DIE ZEIT

2013, 179 pages
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Christoph Menke is professor of Practical Philosophy at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main and a member of the CoE »The Development of Normative Systems«.

Christoph Menke is professor of Practical Philosophy at the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main and a member of the CoE »The Development of...


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

A Theory of Liberation
Year of Publication: 2022
Christoph MenkeYear of Publication: 2022

We live in a time of failed liberations. Under critical examination, it turns out that sooner or later all attempts at liberation have produced new forms of domination and thus of servitude....

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Italy (Castelvecchi), Iran (Naschr-e-Ney)

Critique of Rights
Year of Publication: 2015
Christoph MenkeYear of Publication: 2015
The notion that we have rights is the great normative idea of modernity, specifically in its post-Enlightenment iteration. The declaration of subjective rights marked the birth of bourgeois...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Comares), Greece (Nissos)

Force
Year of Publication: 2005
Christoph MenkeYear of Publication: 2005
The book aims at a new exposition of the basic idea of modern aesthetics by way of a reconstruction of its genesis in the 18th century, between Baumgarten’s Aesthetics and Kant’s...
Rights sold to:

English world rights (Fordham UP), Spanish world rights (Comares), Chinese simplex rights (East China Normal UP), Chinese complex rights (Linking), Italy (Armando Armando), Korea (Greenbee), Japan (Jimbun Shoin), Hungary (Typotex)

Tragic Play
Year of Publication: 2005
Christoph MenkeYear of Publication: 2005
Tragic Play explores the deep philosophical significance of classic and modern tragedies in order to cast light on the tragic dimensions of contemporary experience....
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English world rights (Columbia UP)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again:Spanish world rights (Machado)

Reflections of Equality
Year of Publication: 2004
Christoph MenkeYear of Publication: 2004
When we ask about the responsibilities and rights that we have in regards to one another, modernity’s answer is that they are responsibilities and rights based on equality: equality is the...
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English world rights (Stanford UP)

The Sovereignty of Art
Year of Publication: 1991
Christoph MenkeYear of Publication: 1991
Adorno’s and Derrida’s theories of aesthetics center around art’s claim to sovereignty: art transcends the differentiated construct of modern reason by being a moment simultaneously next to...
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Japan (Ochanomizu)

Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Visor Distribuciones)


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