Preface
ONEThe Unsettling
1.The Thought of Aesthetic Distinction
2.Life Form and Settledness
3.Aesthetic Unsettling
4.The Use of Unsettling
5.The Account
TWOAccounting for Ourselves
1.Determinacy
2.The Original Scene of Self-Determination
3.Form as Answer: Hegel's Conception of the Aesthetic as Determinacy
4.Form as Question: A Conception of the Aesthetic as Indeterminacy
5.The Task of a Unified Accounting
THREEA Three-Way Capacity
1.Rationality and Indeterminacy
2.A Rational Capacity
3.Failed Attempts at Conceiving Indeterminacy
4.Indeterminacy as Part of Our Form
5.Indeterminacy as Such
FOURLogical Account of Aesthetic Action: Aspectual Irresolution
1.The Concept of Aesthetic Action
2.Distinction through Aspectual Irresolution
3.Internal Unity in Crisis
4.Aesthetic Indeterminacy
5.External Unity with Action at Large
FIVEMaterial Account of Aesthetic Action: Bond without Terms
1.Logical and Material Accounting
2.Bond without Terms
3.Aesthetic Interaction
4.Life as Such
5.The Question of Who We Are
SIXAesthetic Transformation
1.Aesthetic Action as Transformation
2.Performance without Resources
3.The Work of Aspectual Irresolution
4.Transformation That Includes Its Terms
5.The Aesthetic Self
SEVENThe Use of the Aesthetic
1.The Political as Example
2.Our Form as Political Task
3.Tino Sehgal: Genus Politics
4.Kara Walker: Politics of Difference
5.Mazen Kerbaj: Politics of Life as Such
Notes
Bibliography
Index