Aesthetic Action

"With ingenious, stunning readings, Klinger breaks new ground in aesthetics. This is a philosophy of art with which thinkers and scholars will contend for years to come."
-Henry W. Pickford, Duke University "Aesthetic Action offers a highly original and substantial outline of a new understanding of aesthetics. This is an important and rigorous contribution to emerging conversations in philosophy, of highest interest for readers interested in giving an account of contemporary art."
-Rüdiger Campe, Yale University "Klinger gives us an entirely new way of understanding the indeterminacy of our encounters with art. In his incisive analyses he offers a truly fresh view of art, one that opens the fields of interaction each work creates."
-Niklaus Largier, University of California, Berkeley "This book rethinks action through aesthetics and aesthetics through action, providing us with a new insight into the kind of unsettling that the aesthetic is and affords."
-María del Rosario Acosta López, University of California, Riverside "Compellingly argued, this ground-breaking book culminates with a series of helpful applications involving case studies of such challenging, contemporary artists as Tino Sehgal, Kara Walker, and Mazen Kerbaj. A dazzling achievement, this book will surely prompt renewed interest in contemporary aesthetics. Essential."
-J. G. Moore, CHOICE