ON BEING WITH OTHERS Heidegger – Derrida – Wittgenstein
When philosophers talk about the external world, they typically populate it with small-tomedium-sized dry-goods: chairs, pens, desks, sticks, and so on. So our perceptual openness to the world is conceived, primarily, in terms of the disclosure of facts about such things. Yet much of our lives is occupied with far more exotic creatures, namely, living things, and particularly, living human beings.
This book provides an excellent detailed review of an important aspect of the geometric program, namely, the role of representation theory of affine Kac-Moody algebras (or loop algebras).
This guide to conceptual art traces the issues and concerns of the first generation of artists involved in the foundation of the movement, with an essay exploring the historical basis of conceptual art, its relationship to the dominant aesthetics of the 1960s, namely the modernist theory of Clement Greenberg and his disciples, and the influence of conceptual art on today’s art and cultural climate.
