The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason by Ginsberg, Robert

The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820486468)

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The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason by Ginsberg, Robert

The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason

$112.85
The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason by Ginsberg, Robert

The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason

$112.85
Format: Hardcover
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In The Aesthetics of Decay, Dylan Trigg confronts the remnants from the fallout of post-industrialism and postmodernism. Through a considered analysis of memory, place, and nostalgia, Trigg argues that the decline of reason enables a critique of progress to emerge. In this ambitious work, Trigg aims to reassess the direction of progress by situating it in a spatial context. In doing so, he applies his critique of rationality to modern ruins. The derelict factory, abandoned asylum, and urban alleyway all become allies in Trigg's attack on a fixed image of temporality and progress. The Aesthetics of Decay offers a model of post-rational aesthetics in which spatial order is challenged by an affirmative ethics of ruin.

Author: Robert Ginsberg
ISBN-10: 0820486469
ISBN-13: 9780820486468
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 07/27/2006
Pages: 268
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 8
By Robert Ginsberg
By Robert Ginsberg
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The Author: Dylan Trigg is a research student at the University of Sussex, England, where he earned his M.A. in aesthetics. He completed his B.A. in philosophy at the University of London. He has published widely on aesthetics, continental philosophy, and space and place.

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