Beyond Speculation

Art and Aesthetics without Myths

Jean-Marie Schaeffer, Daffyd Roberts

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Seagull Books London Ltd
15 August 2015

Theory of art; Philosophy: aesthetics

Series: The French List

In his well-known work of art criticism Art of the Modern Age,

Jean-Marie Schaeffer offered a lucid and powerful critique of what he

identified as the historically dominant thinking about art and

aesthetics from the Jena Romantics, to Nietzsche, Heidegger, Adorno, and

beyond, which he termed “the speculative theory of art.” Here, in Beyond Speculation, Schaeffer

builds from this significant work, rejecting not only the

identification of the aesthetic with the work of art, but also the

Kantian association of the aesthetic with subjectively universal

judgment. In his analysis of aesthetic relations, he opens up a space

for a theory of art that is free of historicism and capable of engaging

with noncanonical and non-Western arts. By engaging with the ideas of Arthur Danto, Gérard Genette, Nelson

Goodman, George Dickie and Rainer Rochlitz, and evoking a range of

aesthetic experience from Proust to King Kong to Japanese temple design,

Beyond Speculation makes an original and engaging contribution to the development of the philosophy of culture. “While Schaeffer is not afraid to do the necessary

detail work, he never gets mired in issues of merely scholastic

interest.”—F. L. Rush, Bookforum, on Art of the Modern Age

By: Jean-Marie Schaeffer
Translated by: Daffyd Roberts
Imprint: Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 1
Dimensions: Height: 24mm, Width: 16mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 567g
ISBN: 9780857420428
ISBN 10: 0857420429
Series: The French List
Pages: 372
Publication Date: 15 August 2015
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jean-Marie Schaeffer is a researcher at Centre national de la recherche scientifique and the director of studies at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris. He has written several books, including Art of the Modern Age: Philosophy of Art from Kant to Heidegger. Daffyd Roberts has worked as a freelance translator since 1989.

Reviews for Beyond Speculation: Art and Aesthetics without Myths

"""While Schaeffer is not afraid to do the necessary detail work, he never gets mired in issues of merely scholastic interest."" (Bookforum, on Art of the Modern Age)"""