Chance, Phenomenology and Aesthetics
Subtitle: Heidegger, Derrida and Contingency in Twentieth Century Art
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781350148468
Description: "In drawing upon the work of Jacques Derrida, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger and aligning it with a new trend in interdisciplinary phenomenology, Ian Andrews provides a unique and refreshing book. His account of how the composer John Cage and other avant-garde creatives such as Marcel Duchamp, Tristan Tzara, Sol LeWitt and Ed Ruscha used chance in their work to question the structures of experience and prompt a new engagement with these phenomena makes a truly important contribution to Continental philosophy"--