| Description |
1 online resource (269 pages) |
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text file |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I. Name No One; 1: Name No One Man; 2: Name No One Name; Part II. Naked; 3: Naked Sharing; 4: Naked Image; Part III. Neutral and Unbecoming; 5: Neutral Mourning; 6: Unbecoming Community; Notes; Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
The Decision Between Us combines an inventive reading of Jean-Luc Nancy with queer theoretical concerns to argue that while scenes of intimacy are spaces of sharing, they are also spaces of separation. John Paul Ricco shows that this tension informs our efforts to coexist ethically and politically, an experience of sharing and separation that informs any decision. Using this incongruous relation of intimate separation, Ricco goes on to propose that "decision" is as much an aesthetic as it is an ethical construct, and one that is always defined in terms of our relations to loss, abs. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
English. |
| Subject |
Arts and morals.
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Arts and morals. |
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Aporia.
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Aporia. |
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Art -- Philosophy.
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Art -- Philosophy. |
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Art -- History and criticism.
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ART -- Performance. |
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Art. |
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ART -- Reference. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ricco, John Paul. Decision Between Us : Art and Ethics in the Time of Scenes. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2014 9780226717777 |
| ISBN |
9780226113371 |
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022611337X |
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9780226717777 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0226717771 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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