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(2006) Literature and philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer.

No matter

aesthetic theory and the self-annihilating artwork

Josh Cohen

pp. 221-230

To begin with, two artworks, one visual, one literary. (We may observe in passing the predicament of "beginning with two' intimated by Jean-Luc Nancy: I am about to suggest that each text can be read as an attempt to present its own essence, that is art "as such'; yet in the attempt to present itself "as such', "art' immediately finds itself consigned to its own ineluctable plurality [visual, literary, musical], that is to "arts'.)1

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DOI: 10.1057/9780230598621_17

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Cohen, J. (2006)., No matter: aesthetic theory and the self-annihilating artwork, in D. Rudrum (ed.), Literature and philosophy, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 221-230.

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