Ebook: Dialectical passions: negation in postwar art theory

Day covers the debates on symbol and allegory waged within the context of 1980s art and their relation to the writings of Walter Benjamin and Paul de Man. She also examines common conceptions of Mediation, totality, negation, and the politics of anticipation. A necessary unsettling of received wisdoms, Dialectical Passions recasts emancipatory reflection in aesthetics, art, and architecture."--Jacket.;T.J. Clark and the pain of the unattainable beyond -- Looking the negative in the face : Manfredo Tafuri and the Venice school of architecture -- Absolute dialectical unrest, or, The dizziness of a perpetually self-engendered disorder -- The immobilization of "social abstraction" -- Afterword : abstract and transitive possibilities.