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  <title><![CDATA[Handbook Of Inaesthetics]]></title>
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  <default_description>&lt;div&gt;Didacticism, romanticism, and classicism are the possible schemata for the knotting of art and philosophy, the third term in this knot being the education of subjects, youth in particular.  What characterizes the century that has just come to a close is that, while it underwent the saturation of these three schemata, it failed to introduce a new one. Today, this predicament tends to produce a kind of unknotting of terms, a desperate dis-relation between art and philosophy, together with the pure and simple collapse of what circulated between them: the theme of education.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Whence the thesis of which this book is nothing but a series of variations: faced with such a situation of saturation and closure, we must attempt to propose a new schema, a fourth type of knot between philosophy and art.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Among these &amp;#8220;inaesthetic&amp;#8221; variations, the reader will encounter a sustained debate with contemporary philosophical uses of the poem, bold articulations of the specificity and prospects of theater, cinema, and dance, along with subtle and provocative readings of Fernando Pessoa, St&#233;phane Mallarm&#233;, and Samuel Beckett.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</default_description>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alain Badiou]]></name>
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  <read_at>Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Alain Badiou grappling with philosophy's artistic condition. While not exactly central to Badiou's philosophical project, this is a good book to read to understand his view of philosophy's relation to art (or &quot;artistic truth procedures&quot;) and has several examples of Badiou's efforts...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/61001862">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Not sure I have fully grasped the procedure <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Badiou" title=" Badiou"> Badiou</a> wishes to invoke, but nonetheless, Inaesthetics is a stimulating and impassioned political treatise that compliments his magnum opus “<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= Being and Event" title=" Being and Event"> Being and Event</a>”. <br/><br/><br/>“By ʻinaestheticsʼ I understand a relation of philosophy to art that,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3383124">more...</a>]]></body>
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  <read_at>Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Although not a light read, this title is far more accessible than Badiou's collossus &quot;Being and Event.&quot;  In order to fully grasp this book, it's best to get a bit familiar with Badiou's generalization of set theory from math into ontology.  Once done, this book can provide a perspective co...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/12413464">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Mostly irritating, but the essay on Beckett's Worstward Ho is wonderful.]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really didn't like this book, and it has soured me on Badiou.  It's a very weakly constructed system and completely misunderstands the avant-garde.]]></body>
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