Andean Aesthetics and Anticolonial Resistance
A Cosmology of Unsociable Bodies
Seiten
2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-17375-0 (ISBN)
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-17375-0 (ISBN)
Informed by Gloria Anzaldúa’s and José Carlos Mariátegui’s work, as well as by Andean cosmology, Omar Rivera turns to Inka stonework and architecture as an example of a “Cosmological Aesthetics.” He articulates ways of sensing, feeling and remembering that are attuned to an aesthetic of water, earth and light. On this basis, Rivera brings forth a corporeal orientation that can be inhabited by the oppressed, one that withdraws from predominant modern/Western conceptions of the human. By providing an aesthetic analysis of cosmological sensing, Rivera sets the stage for exploring physical dimensions of anti-colonial resistance, and furthers the Latinx and Latin American tradition of anti-colonial and liberatory philosophy. Seeing aesthetic involvements with the cosmos as a source for embodied modes of resistance, Rivera turns to the work of María Lugones and Enrique Dussel in order to make explicit the aesthetic dimensions of their work.
Andean Aesthetics and Anticolonial Resistance creates a new dialogue between art historians, artists, and philosophers working on Latin American thought, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. It weaves together a Latin American philosophy that connects pre-Columbian cosmologies with contemporary thinkers. Rivera's original approach introduces us to the living, evolving and aesthetic alternatives to coloniality of power and of knowledge, overhauling current understandings of decolonial theory and opening the tradition in transformative ways.
Andean Aesthetics and Anticolonial Resistance creates a new dialogue between art historians, artists, and philosophers working on Latin American thought, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. It weaves together a Latin American philosophy that connects pre-Columbian cosmologies with contemporary thinkers. Rivera's original approach introduces us to the living, evolving and aesthetic alternatives to coloniality of power and of knowledge, overhauling current understandings of decolonial theory and opening the tradition in transformative ways.
Omar Rivera is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University, USA.
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: “Marginal” Theorizing and Anticolonial Resistance
Part I: Cosmological Aesthetics
1. From Elemental to Cosmological Aesthetics
2. An Approach to Andean Aesthetics
Part II: Embodiments of Resistance
3. Visions of Resistance
4. After-Bodies
5. Resistant Gestures
Part III: In Company
6. Ana-topia (In Dialogue with María Lugones)
7. Aísthesis (In Dialogue with Enrique Dussel)
Conclusion: Turns and Departures
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.11.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Bloomsbury Studies in World Philosophies |
| Zusatzinfo | 10 bw illus |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 517 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-350-17375-4 / 1350173754 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-350-17375-0 / 9781350173750 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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