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Productive Digression is a translation of the ancient term __poetics:__ as a __practice of theory__. The products produced in the mode of __poiesis__ are ‘digressive’ in that they operate off track; they resist the main stream of every day prose. They do so for various reasons and in various respects. Mostly, they are explained historically, relative to historical contexts and, that is, contrary to what they are meant to resist. Instead, this book investigates the modes of resistance, their epistemology of production, in short, the logic of digression. The method addresses the singular exemplarity of art and literature; it elucidates the impact of __poiesis__ as an epistemological challenge and redefines the analysis of literature and art as branches of an Historical Epistemology. Proceeding from the state of affairs in 20^th^ century criticism and aesthetics (Benjamin, Adorno, Blumenberg, Merleau-Ponty), the epistemology of representation (Whitehead, Canguilhem, Bachelard, Rheinberger) is revised in, and with respect to critical consequences (Derrida, Marin, de Man, Agamben). From literary criticism and critical legal studies to the scenario of the life sciences, the essays collec

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Author

Haverkamp, Anselm

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110486216

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Art, Philosophy, Literary Criticism