Henry Miller, the inhuman artist : a philosophical inquiry /

Against skeptics, Manniste argues that Miller does indeed have a philosophy of his own, which underpins most of his texts. It is demonstrated that this philosophy, as a metaphysical sense of life, forms a system the understanding of which is necessary to adequately explain even some of the most basi...

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Main Author: Manniste, Indrek
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Language:English
Published: New York : Bloomsbury, 2013.
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505 0 |a Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; Notes; Chapter 1 Prelude to a Future Philosophy: Modernist Melancholy, Dadaist Dances, and Surrealist Songs; A modernist who got left out in the cold; Modernists in Europe, Miller in America; Dadaist dances; Surrealist songs; Where do we go from here?; Notes; Chapter 2 Apocalypse Now: The End of History and the Twofold Present; Apocalypse and modern consciousness; Toward the ahistorical; Linear history rejected; Away from the "middle"; Two presents uncovered; Against the "transitional" moderns. 
505 8 |a Dealing with the crisisEn route to Philosophia Milleriana via the traditional and full present; Notes; Chapter 3 The Anxiety of Enframing: Miller, Modern Technology, and Work; The rise of modern technology; Technological America and Miller's youth; Spengler, the machine and the Faustian man; Against false progress; Miller, technology, and the Frankfurt School; Overthrowing metaphysics with Heidegger: Traditional present and the metaphysical ground; Traditional present ontic, full present ontological?; Modern technology as Enframing. 
505 8 |a Modern work as part of the traditional present and its metaphysicsBecoming a machine; Work vs. play; Free at last; Toward the inhuman and the full present; Notes; Chapter 4 Behold, I Teach You the Inhuman!: Inhuman Artist, Übermensch, and China; The appearance of the inhuman; The inhuman revolution; Two sides of the inhuman artist: Beelzebub and St. Anthony; Inhuman  Übermensch?; Critics on Miller and Übermensch; Miller: A king of allusion or a poor man's Nietzsche?; From art to China: Inhuman revolution vol. 2; A call for inhuman art; China disclosed; Inhuman revolution now finished? 
505 8 |a China and NietzscheChina vs. esthetics; Art estheticized; Art and art; Notes; Chapter 5 From Theoria To Praxis: The Poetry of Life; Greece: Transition to St. Anthony and the Artist; From peace to China, from art to life; America: Search for the Inhuman in the land of hopes and dreams; Inhuman in need of human help; The woods of Arcady are alive: Big Sur; C'est tout!: Pacific Palisades; The words of wisdom: To whom and what for?; Notes; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. 
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