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Author Pfaller, Robert, author.

Title Interpassivity : the aethetics of delegated enjoyment / Robert Pfaller.

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource (v, 154 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Incitements
Incitements.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Interpassivity Today; 1 The Work of Art That Observes Itself; 2 The Parasites of Parricide. Living through the other when killing the father: Interpassivity in Brothers Karamazov; 3 Little Gestures of Disappearance. Interpassivity and the Theory of Ritual; 4 Interpassivity and Misdemeanours. The Art of Thinking In Examples and the Zizekian Toolbox; 5 Against Participation; 6 Matters of Generosity: On Art and Love; 7 What Reveals the Taste of the City. On Urbanity; Bibliography.
Summary Why do people record TV programmes instead of watching them? Why are former alcoholics pleased to let other people drink in their place? Why can ritual machines pray in place of believers? Robert Pfaller advances the theory of 'interpassivity' as delegated consumption and enjoyment. 'New concepts are rare in social thinking, and interpassivity is arguably the only true concept to have emerged in the last two decades. The idea that others can not only act for us but that they can also be passive for us, that we can enjoy, believe, laugh and cry through others, provides the key to understanding the paradoxes of our cynical-hedonist era. So let's not beat around the bush, Interpassivity is simply one of the great founding texts of social thought, on a par with works of classics like Max Weber.' Slavoj Zizek A radical criticism of current assumptions in the field of cultural theory today Robert Pfaller advances a general theory of interpassivity as the wish for delegated consumption and enjoyment in both art and everyday life. It is therefore a concept that allows him to tackle a vast range of phenomena: culture, art, sports and religion. He asks: Why do people record TV programmes instead of watching them? Why are former alcoholics pleased to let other people drink in their place? Why can ritual machines pray in place of believers? Asking these unusual questions allows us to understand not only certain modes of behaviour but also mechanisms of pleasure in culture. Pfaller provides criticism of dominant assumptions, offers an escape from prevailing ideologies and exposes the ways in which cultural capitalism promotes commodities with the promise of happiness. Robert Pfaller is Professor of Philosophy and Cultural Theory at the University of Art and Industrial Design of Linz, Austria. Cover design: [EUP logo] edinburghuniversitypress.com ISBN [PPC] 978-1-4744-2292-5 ISBN [cover] 978-1-4744-2293-2 Barcode.
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Subject Passivity (Psychology)
Passivity (Psychology)
Happiness -- Philosophy.
Happiness -- Philosophy.
Happiness.
Consumption (Economics) -- Philosophy.
Consumption (Economics)
Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Pfaller, Robert. Interpassivity. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017 9781474422925 (OCoLC)973281176
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