Post-Exceptionalism

Art After Political Theology

Arne De Boever (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2026
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
9781399539708 (ISBN)

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Brings together the philosophy of art and aesthetics with debates about political theology and sovereignty.

Postmodernism has come and gone, but the belief that artists and works of art are exceptional is alive and well. Post-Exceptionalism speculates that this is so because postmodernism, when it declared the death of the author and celebrated the copy, failed to name political theology as its fundamental target. In a time when sovereignty is experiencing a dubious global revival, the moment has come to reconsider the artist and the work of art after political theology in search for a new, worldly, and emancipatory politics of aesthetics.

Arne De Boever teaches American Studies in the School of Critical Studies at the California Institute of the Arts. He is the author of numerous articles, reviews, and translations, as well as several books on contemporary comparative fiction and political and aesthetic philosophy. His books include Against Aesthetic Exceptionalism (2019), Plastic Sovereignties: Agamben and the Politics of Aesthetics (2016), François Jullien’s Unexceptional Thought (2020), and Being Vulnerable (2023).

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Post-Exceptionalism and Its Politics

Part I. The Vandal
1. Damage Art
2. The Copy’s Blow

Part II. The Forger
3. Post-Exceptional Fakes
4. Turning Toward Landscape

Part III. The Sage
5. Post-Exceptionalism as Political Formalism
6. From Duplitectures to Dafen

Conclusion: Variations on Post-Exceptional Art

Coda: The End of Art (Once Again)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.7.2026
Reihe/Serie	Incitements
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	135 x 190 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-13	9781399539708 / 9781399539708
Zustand	Neuware