Magical Nominalism

Preface

Introduction
The Nominalist Revolution
The Realist Counterrevolution

1. Conventional Nominalism
The Via Moderna
Nominalism and the Turn toward Language
Nominalism and Political Theory

2. Magical Nominalism
Magic and Science
Magic and Religion
Magic and Social Science
Jewish Nominalism
Walter Benjamin and Magical Nominalism

Intermezzo: Magical Nominalism and Negative Theology

3. History, Sublime Experience, and the Event
Conventional Nominalism and the Idiographic Method
The New Experientialism
Magical Nominalism and the Post-1968 Exaltation of the Event
Unanswered Questions

4. Irrealism in Aesthetics: Conventional or Magical Nominalism?
The Decline of Aesthetic Platonism
Marcel Duchamp and "Pictorial Nominalism"
Adorno and the Ambiguous Implications of Musical Nominalism

5. The Photograph
Indexical Traces: Realist or Nominalist?
Barthes and the Punctum
The Photograph as Event, Readymade, and Proper Name
Coda: Siegfried Kracauer on the Photograph

In Lieu of a Conclusion

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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• Filosofia da linguagem
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nominalism;magic;photography;the event;Theodor Adorno;Frank Ankersmit;Alain Badiou;Roland Barthes;Georges Bataille;Walter Benjamin