Looking Away: Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction, Kant to Adorno

240 Pages·2009·1.02 MB·English

by  Rei Terada

Looking Away

Looking Away
Phenomenality and Dissatisfaction,
Kant to Adorno
rei terada
harvard university press
Cambridge,Massachusetts,andLondon,England
2009
Copyright©2009bythePresidentandFellowsofHarvardCollege
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Terada,Rei.
Lookingaway:phenomenalityanddissatisfaction,KanttoAdorno/ReiTerada.
p. cm.
Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex.
ISBN978-0-674-03268-2(alk.paper)
1.Appearance(Philosophy) 2.Perception(Philosophy) 3.Satisfaction. I.Title.
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
AbbreviationsandTextualNote xi
Pretext 1
1 ColeridgeamongtheSpectra 35
1.PurpleHaze 40
2.ThoughtsandThings 51
3.ContemporaryTheoriesofDerealization
andMistrust 68
2 AppearanceandAcceptanceinKant 73
1.FromMeretoNecessaryAppearance 76
2.NoFault 81
3.TheRighttoaPhenomenalWorld 83
4.LegalizeIt 96
3 NoRight:PhenomenalityandSelf-Denial 114
inNietzsche
1.GenealogyofPhenomenality 118
2.StolenPhenomenality 130
3.TheDisappearanceofAppearance 137
4 CourtofAppeal,or,Adorno 153
1.CritiqueofFacticity 158
2.IllusioninTotalIllusion 173
contents
viii
3.CircusColors 183
4.CourtofAppeal 190
Postscript 199
Bibliography 207
Index 219
Acknowledgments
I’mgratefultoUCIrvine,UCBerkeley,andtheUniversityofCalifornia
Humanities Research Institute for their support of this project. I enjoyed
the advantages of conversations about materials in this book with col-
leagues at these places and at the Claremont Colleges, Cornell, Emory,
Johns Hopkins, the University of Minnesota, the University of Southern
California, Utretcht University, and the University of Wisconsin, Madi-
son. I’d like to thank especially Aaron Kunin, James Morrison, Marc
Redfield, Cynthia Chase, Cathy Caruth, Neil Hertz, Michael Snediker,
Jordan Stein, John Mowitt, Daniel Tiffany, Ortwin de Graef, and Sara
Guyer for their engagement. Julia S. Carlson, David L. Clark, Michelle
Cho, Anne-Lise François, Eleanor Kaufman, David Lloyd, Robert
Meister,DavidMikics,andIreneTuckerreadandcommentedonvarious
partsofthemanuscript,andIanBalfourandanonymousreadersforHar-
vardUPonthewhole.BernardRichterandErinTrapphelpedwithGer-
man texts, read much of the manuscript, and suggested many useful
things. Tom Pepper contributed to the conception of the book, the early
chapters, and my understanding of the kinds of experiences explored
within it. Adela Pinch steered me to object relations in the late 1990s,
which helped me to think many of these thoughts. I could not have done
withouttheimaginativesupportofCharlesAltieri,CharlesFisher,Judith
Goldman,IanLeong,LittleTokyoServiceCenter:ACommunityDevel-
opmentCorporation,ElizaRichards,AnnandBillSmock,andSeaLevel
Records.