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Modul / Kurs Nr.:
S10-SLF-HKB-16490.20101.001
Bezeichnung:
Art and Philosophy: The Work and the Absence of Work (on Michel Foucault et al.)
Datum:
26.04.2010 - 30.04.2010
Federführende Fakultät:
Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät
Leitung:
Coelen / Ensslin / Günther / Kisser / Müller / Leonhard
Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
0
Bereich:
Masterstudiengang "Historische Kunst- und Bilddiskurse" im Elitenetzwerk Bayern
Qualifikationsziele:
Inhalte:
The notion of "work" - Werk, oeuvre, opera - plays a pivotal role in any concept of art and its relation to philosophical and theoretical discourse. Major philosophical contributions of the 20th century - especially Heidegger's and Benjamin's "Kunstwerk"-Aufsätze - have challenged the notion and, with it, the status of such as terms as "unity", "object", "production" and "labor".

Furthermore, French philosophy of the last fifty years paid particular attention to the "absence of work" - absence d'oeuvre - as both a definition of madness and the characteristic of modern literary and artistic "activity". And in a variety of authors (e.g. Bataille, Blanchot, Deleuze, Nancy) the term désoeuvrement - idleness as well as "unworking" - serves as a means to think through the specific negativity inherent in the concepts of work, production and representation. Also, the psychoanalytic hypothesis of the unconscious makes it impossible to leave unquestioned any unproblematic notion of working, causality and production: behind the screen of the work contingency and its fragile constructions have be analyzed.

The seminar will both be an investigation into philosophical and the theoretical concepts of work, absence of work, désoeuvrement and an intensive analysis and discussion of major texts by Michel Foucault. For Foucault's writings - from the earlier texts on madness and literature to the later ones on the history of sexuality and biopolitics - can be seen as an incessant meditation on these notions and the problems they pose to contemporary thought.
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Literatur:
Walter Benjamin, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" ("Das Kunstwerk im
Zeitalter seiner technischen Reproduzierbarkeit")
Michael Foucault, The Order of Things (Les mots et les choses)
---, Archaeology of Knowledge (L'archéologie du savoir)
---, (Various essays and extracts)
Martin Heidegger, "The Origin of the Work of Art" ("Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes")
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For information and enrollment, please mail to: mcoelen@lmu.de
Credits:
Raum:
Vorbereitende Sitzungen in München, LMU, Zeit und Ort nach V., BLV in Venedig, Venice International University
Eingeplante Veranstaltungstermine 
Datum / Zeit Raum Dozent
Mo 26.04.2010 09:00 - Fr 30.04.2010 19:00
Coelen Marcus
Ensslin Felix
Kisser Thomas
Leonhard Karin