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Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics

Without Criteria: Kant, Whitehead, Deleuze, and Aesthetics

Shaviro, Steven

Paperback

Series: Technologies of Lived Abstraction

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0262517973
ISBN13: 9780262517973
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Aug 17 2012
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.66
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A Deleuzian reading of Whitehead and a Whiteheadian reading of Deleuze open the possibility of a critical aesthetics of contemporary culture.

In Without Criteria, Steven Shaviro proposes and explores a philosophical fantasy: imagine a world in which Alfred North Whitehead takes the place of Martin Heidegger. What if Whitehead, instead of Heidegger, had set the agenda for postmodern thought? Heidegger asks, Why is there something, rather than nothing? Whitehead asks, How is it that there is always something new? In a world where everything from popular music to DNA is being sampled and recombined, argues Shaviro, Whitehead's question is the truly urgent one. Without Criteria is Shaviro's experiment in rethinking postmodern theory, especially the theory of aesthetics, from a point of view that hearkens back to Whitehead rather than Heidegger. In working through the ideas of Whitehead and Deleuze, Shaviro also appeals to Kant, arguing that certain aspects of Kant's thought pave the way for the philosophical constructivism embraced by both Whitehead and Deleuze.

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