Trigg, Dylan.

The aesthetics of decay : nothingness, nostalgia, and the absence of reason / Dylan Trigg. - New York : Peter Lang, c2006. - xxix, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. NFIC - New studies in aesthetics, v. 37 .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-259) and index.

Tarrying with the nothing -- Silence, violence, and nothingness -- An uncanny memory -- The specter of exile -- Dark night of the soul -- An impossible nostalgia -- The decline of postmodernism? -- The revolt of reason -- A short history of decay -- An uncanny place: modern ruins -- The post-industrial sublime -- The phenomenology of the alleyway -- Aesthetic revulsion: staircases and rust -- Transgressing place: urban exploration -- Space and center: ruins as home -- Memories in ruin.

0820486469 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780820486468

2006019387


Reason.
Memory.
Aesthetics.
Civilization--Forecasting.

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