Title: The Event of Encounter in Art and Philosophy
Subtitle: Continental Perspectives
Description: The event of an encounter is singular, unrepeatable and unpredictable. It marks not only a unique moment of temporary contact, but also the past and the future, makes them meaningful, defines them anew. Such an event is a moment of liberty, a feast, a revolution or a catastrophe - we should find again in order to become responsible for and to it. This volume in itself consists of a network of encounters. The multiplicity of viewpoints, styles and modes of argumentation displays the ultimate aim of to form a discursive space where the notion of encounter is not only a theme among others but also a way of thinking. "If art is the domain of the excessive - sensations and affects - it is by definition oriented towards its own supersaturated condition, the virtual. Art takes place as the site that thematizes itself as a site, a domain or a stage, but simultaneously collapses its unity by expressing qualities that migrate from other milieus. Art as derangement: actualized Nature opening up to the virtual forces of the Cosmos."
Subjects: Philosophy, Hermeneutics, Deconstruction, Art, Aesthetics, Theatre, Poetry, Novel, Art and philosophy
People: Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003), Jacques Rancière (1940-), Jean-Luc Nancy (1940-2021), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), Paul Celan (1920-1970), Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995), Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980), Alain Robbe-Grillet, Roland Barthes (1915-1980), Jaufre Rudel