Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion
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Aesthetics of Clarity and Confusion
Literature and Engagement since Nietzsche and the Naturalists
Baker, Geoffrey
Springer International Publishing AG
12/2016
279
Dura
Inglês
9783319421704
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Instead of prizing one approach over the other, as many participants in those debates have done, Baker focuses on the manner in which the debate itself between these approaches continues to prove productive and enabling for politically engaged writers.
Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Literary Activism, Clarity and Confusion I. Sartre and the Aesthetic of Clarity II. Adorno and the Aesthetic of Confusion III. The Use(lessness) of Literature and Language Part I: Naturalists and Nietzscheans: Codifying Clarity and Confusion Chapter 1: "For Love of Clarity": Emile Zola, Practice, and the Political Potential of Realistic Literature I. "Tout voir, tout savoir": Seeing as Knowing II. Content to Know III. The Practical Uses of Clarity Chapter 2: Grounds for Confusion: Nietzsche, Theory, and the Political Potential of Anti-Realism I. "Das Problem der Wissenschaft": Against Knowing II. "Clarity Bordering on Stupidity": The Form of Confusion III. The Practical Uses of Confusion Part II: Ambiguities of Activism: Complicating Clarity and Confusion Chapter 3: Between Theory and Practice: Matthew Arnold, Thomas Mann, Julien Benda, and the Purpose of the Intellectual I. "Apostle[s] of Political Detachment"? II. Criticism between Clarity and Confusion III. Criticism as Activism IV. Between Theory and Practice, Still Chapter 4: "Different Kinds of Clarity": Science, Sense, and Utilitarian Realism in Bertolt Brecht I. Naturalist Brecht? II. The Sense of Brecht III. "The Truth is Concrete": Brecht's Materialism IV. "That Brechtian Usefulness" Chapter 5: Pressing Engagement: Jean-Paul Sartre and the Aesthetic Problem of the Political I. Communication, Clarity, and Confusion II. Forms of Engagement: Confusing Sartre III. To Change the Subject: Narcissistic Activism Chapter 6: An Other Engagement: Simone de Beauvoir and the Ethical Problem of the Political I. The Problem of Engagement II. The Aesthetics and Ethics of Engagement in The Mandarins Conclusion: Contemporary Engagements with Clarity and Confusion I. Peter Handke: From the Ivory Tower II. Toni Morrison: "How to See without Pictures" III. J.M Coetzee: "Surprising Involvement" Works Cited
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Instead of prizing one approach over the other, as many participants in those debates have done, Baker focuses on the manner in which the debate itself between these approaches continues to prove productive and enabling for politically engaged writers.
Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: Literary Activism, Clarity and Confusion I. Sartre and the Aesthetic of Clarity II. Adorno and the Aesthetic of Confusion III. The Use(lessness) of Literature and Language Part I: Naturalists and Nietzscheans: Codifying Clarity and Confusion Chapter 1: "For Love of Clarity": Emile Zola, Practice, and the Political Potential of Realistic Literature I. "Tout voir, tout savoir": Seeing as Knowing II. Content to Know III. The Practical Uses of Clarity Chapter 2: Grounds for Confusion: Nietzsche, Theory, and the Political Potential of Anti-Realism I. "Das Problem der Wissenschaft": Against Knowing II. "Clarity Bordering on Stupidity": The Form of Confusion III. The Practical Uses of Confusion Part II: Ambiguities of Activism: Complicating Clarity and Confusion Chapter 3: Between Theory and Practice: Matthew Arnold, Thomas Mann, Julien Benda, and the Purpose of the Intellectual I. "Apostle[s] of Political Detachment"? II. Criticism between Clarity and Confusion III. Criticism as Activism IV. Between Theory and Practice, Still Chapter 4: "Different Kinds of Clarity": Science, Sense, and Utilitarian Realism in Bertolt Brecht I. Naturalist Brecht? II. The Sense of Brecht III. "The Truth is Concrete": Brecht's Materialism IV. "That Brechtian Usefulness" Chapter 5: Pressing Engagement: Jean-Paul Sartre and the Aesthetic Problem of the Political I. Communication, Clarity, and Confusion II. Forms of Engagement: Confusing Sartre III. To Change the Subject: Narcissistic Activism Chapter 6: An Other Engagement: Simone de Beauvoir and the Ethical Problem of the Political I. The Problem of Engagement II. The Aesthetics and Ethics of Engagement in The Mandarins Conclusion: Contemporary Engagements with Clarity and Confusion I. Peter Handke: From the Ivory Tower II. Toni Morrison: "How to See without Pictures" III. J.M Coetzee: "Surprising Involvement" Works Cited
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