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Life Itself.

On the question of what it essentially is; its materialities, its characteristics, considering that attempts to answer this question by occidental sciences and philosophies have proven unsatisfactory / Moderna Museet
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312 Seiten
2016
König, Walther (Verlag)
978-3-86335-889-1 (ISBN)

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Anyone undertaking a study of the concept of “life” in our culture will observe that it never gets defined as such, writes Giorgio Agamben. Instead, he claims, this indeterminate thing – life itself – gets articulated and divided time and again through a series of oppositions that give it a function in the sciences without ever being defined as such. These theoretical and literary articulations are what this book is about, and what the 173 texts by author’s, scientists and philosophers from all times and all disciplines will try to answer.

Ernst Haeckel, speculative biologist and naturalist, coined key concepts as phylum and ecology. In the years 1899–1904 he published Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms of Nature), one hundred prints depicting organisms many of which were first described by Haeckel himself, who with this project took an unusual step from science to art. His sketches thus create a bridge between this book and the exhibition at Moderna Museet, appearing in the margins of both. Otherwise there is no art in this publication and the division of labor strict: the exhibition is art’s chance to answer the topic spelled out in the subtitle to Life Itself: “On the question of what it essentially is; its materialities, its characteristics, considering that attempts to answer this question by occidental sciences and philosophies have proven unsatisfactory.”
Erscheinungsdatum
Sprache englisch
Maße 184 x 305 mm
Gewicht 1583 g
Einbandart gebunden
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Malerei / Plastik
Schlagworte Moderna Museet, Stockholm • Theorie • Zeitgenössische Kunst
ISBN-10 3-86335-889-9 / 3863358899
ISBN-13 978-3-86335-889-1 / 9783863358891
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