Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 The Exceptionality of the Human Spirit
The Human Exception
Natural Aesthetics
Origin and Language
Nature Created in Man's Image
To Have and Have Not
Part 2 The Animal and the Image
Introduction: Discourse and Imagicity
Condillac and Animal Imagination
Rousseau and the Noble Visual
Diderot's Suspicion
A Concluding Note
Part 3 Art and Evolution
Introduction: Darwin's Century
The Subjective and the Objective
The Crisis of Symbolism and the Violent Other
Evolution of the Species and the Creative Sentiment
Nietzsche
Part 4 The Poetic Lie
The Primitive Origin of Art
Gaze and the Invisible
The World of Abstraction and the Revolution of the Beasts
Dream, Debauchery, Myth
Part 5 Conclusion: The Modern Other
Animalization of Art
The Formalist World of Creation
The Surrealist Solutions
The Animal Itself
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part 1 The Exceptionality of the Human Spirit
The Human Exception
Natural Aesthetics
Origin and Language
Nature Created in Man's Image
To Have and Have Not
Part 2 The Animal and the Image
Introduction: Discourse and Imagicity
Condillac and Animal Imagination
Rousseau and the Noble Visual
Diderot's Suspicion
A Concluding Note
Part 3 Art and Evolution
Introduction: Darwin's Century
The Subjective and the Objective
The Crisis of Symbolism and the Violent Other
Evolution of the Species and the Creative Sentiment
Nietzsche
Part 4 The Poetic Lie
The Primitive Origin of Art
Gaze and the Invisible
The World of Abstraction and the Revolution of the Beasts
Dream, Debauchery, Myth
Part 5 Conclusion: The Modern Other
Animalization of Art
The Formalist World of Creation
The Surrealist Solutions
The Animal Itself
Afterword
Bibliography
Index