Derrida's Errors and the Possibility of Canonic Art. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Derrida's Errors and the Possibility of Canonic Art. Issue 1 (2nd January 2016)
- Main Title:
- Derrida's Errors and the Possibility of Canonic Art
- Authors:
- Crowther, Paul
- Abstract:
- Abstract: One of the problems in phenomenological approaches to art, is to understand the link between the ontologies of art media and questions of value. Unfortunately, recent discussions of art's broader cultural context have not helped in this task. There has been a widespread assumption that the historical circumstances of art's cultural production, its constituencies of reception, and contexts of transmission and the like, render artistic value relative to the time and place of its production. My purpose in this critical discussion, is to move beyond the restrictions and contradictions of such relativism. I shall argue that art engages with factors that are of universal rather than relative import, and that questions of value are connected to this. In doing so, I will hope, in other words, to subvert the relativist orthodoxy by clarifying art's reality as art. I shall do so as perversely as possible by, in Part One, criticizing and developing one of the great inspirations for relativism, namely Derrida's notion of différance . In Part Two, I shall use components of that concept, namely difference and iterability to indicate the basis of art's reality qua art, the justification of canonic work, and, in the course of this, art's legitimate claim to high-cultural status.
- Is Part Of:
- Journal of aesthetics and phenomenology. Volume 3:Issue 1(2016)
- Journal:
- Journal of aesthetics and phenomenology
- Issue:
- Volume 3:Issue 1(2016)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 3, Issue 1 (2016)
- Year:
- 2016
- Volume:
- 3
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2016-0003-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 15
- Page End:
- 25
- Publication Date:
- 2016-01-02
- Subjects:
- Difference -- iterability -- art -- Derrida -- stylistic -- canonic -- the canon -- signification
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- http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/journal/journal-of-aesthetics-and-phenomenology/ ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/openurl?genre=journal&eissn=2053-9339 ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/20539320.2016.1187852 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 2053-9320
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