Art's passing for Hegel, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy

Mckeane, J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2141-079X (2021) Art's passing for Hegel, Lacoue-Labarthe, Nancy. Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities, 26 (1-2). pp. 101-112. ISSN 1469-2899 doi: 10.1080/0969725X.2021.1938401

Abstract/Summary

This article explores the understanding of æsthetics in the work of Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy. It does so in relation to Hegel’s claim about art’s dissolution or passing at the end of the classical, Greek age, as the world entered the modern, Christian age. For the two French thinkers, their relation to Hegel (and to a large extent æsthetics generally) turns on the claim that art was, but is not. The article looks first at Nancy’s discussion of the young girl carrying fruit, a figure used by Hegel to depict this scene in the history of spirit, then moves on to a rarely-read but significant article by Lacoue-Labarthe, ‘The Unpresentable’, before some final thoughts.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/90740
Identification Number/DOI	10.1080/0969725X.2021.1938401
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Arts, Humanities and Social Science > School of Literature and Languages > Languages and Cultures > French
Publisher	Taylor and Francis Group
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