{"product_id":"looking-away-rei-terada-9780674032682","title":"Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLooking Away, \u003c\/i\u003e Rei Terada revisits debates about appearance and reality in order to make a startling claim: that the purpose of such debates is to police feelings of dissatisfaction with the given world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFocusing on romantic and post-romantic thought after Kant, Terada argues that acceptance of the world \"as is\" is coerced by canonical epistemology and aesthetics. In guilty evasions of this coercion, post-Kantian thinkers cultivate fleeting, aberrant appearances, perceptual experiences that do not present themselves as facts to be accepted and therefore become images of freedom. This \"phenomenophilia,\" she suggests, informs romanticism and subsequent philosophical thought with a nascent queer theory. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThrough graceful readings of Coleridge's obsession with perceptual ephemera, or \"spectra,\" recorded in his \u003ci\u003eNotebooks;\u003c\/i\u003e of Kant's efforts in his First and Third Critiques to come to terms with the given world; of Nietzsche's responses to Kant and his meditations on ephemeral phenomenal experiences; and of Adorno's interpretations of both Nietzsche and Kant, Terada proposes that the connection between dissatisfaction and ephemeral phenomenality reveals a hitherto-unknown alternative to aesthetics that expresses our right to desire something other than experience \"as is,\" even those parts of it that really cannot be otherwise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Rei Terada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674032683\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674032682\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2009\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.40w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChronicle of Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2009 pg. 21","brand":"Rei Terada","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45896453521663,"sku":"9780674032682","price":73.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_913c0b22-b957-43bf-909a-96aa25a75c5e.jpg?v=1721371446","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/looking-away-rei-terada-9780674032682","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}