Nots - Mark C. Taylor

Nots is a virtuoso exploration of negation and negativity in theology philosophy art architecture postmodern culture and medicine. In nine essays that range from nihility in Buddhism to the embodiment of negativity in disease Mark C. Taylor looks at the surprising ways in which contrasting concepts of negativity intersect. In the first section of this book Taylor discusses the question of the not in the religious thought of Anselm Hegel Derrida and Nishitani. In the second part he analyzes artistic efforts to figure not in the work of artists Arakawa and Madeline Gins architect Daniel Libeskind pop artist David Sallee and pop icon Madonna. The final section consists of a deeply personal and scientifically informed chapter that discusses the workings of negativity in immunology and illness. Taylor's essays work toward a sense of the not as unnameable as it is irrepressible--an unthinkable third that falls between being and nonbeing. Bringing together concerns that span Taylor's early investigations of Hegel and Kierkegaard and recent studies of art and architecture Nots is an important contribution by one of the most original and distinctive voices now writing on the American scene. Mark C. Taylor is the Preston S. Parish Third Century Professor of Humanities at Williams College. Four of his previous books are published by the University of Chicago Press: Erring: A Postmodern A/Theology; Deconstruction in Context: Literature and Philosophy; Altarity; and Disfiguring: Art Architecture Religion. Religion and Postmodernism series

TITLE: Nots

AUTHOR: Mark C. Taylor

SKU: 9780226791319

PUBLISHER: The University of Chicago Press

DATE PUBLISHED: 01/06/1993

PLACE PUBLISHED: United States

PAGES: 280

BINDING: Paperback / softback

LANGUAGE: English

DIMENSIONS: 152 mm x 228 mm

WEIGHT: 481 gr