Chance, Phenomenology and Aesthetics: Heidegger, Derrida and Contingency in Twentieth Century Art

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 look at the role of chance in art and its philosophical implications. 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.

Chance, Phenomenology and Aesthetics will appeal to scholars and advanced students in the disciplines of phenomenology, deconstruction and hermeneutics, as well as being compelling reading for anyone interested in pursuing sound studies, art theory and art history through an interdisciplinary post-phenomenological lens.

Author: Ian Andrews
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 05/19/2022
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781350187122