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Frank Ruda, Jan Völker: Preface
Preface
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Frank Ruda, Jan Völker

Preface

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  • art theory
  • contemporary art
  • Marcel Duchamp
  • Walter Benjamin
  • art criticism
  • Theodor W. Adorno
  • aesthetics
  • temporality
  • art
  • poetry
  • theatre / drama
  • politics

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Frank Ruda

Frank Ruda

holds a research position at the Collaborative Research Centre 626 at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is co-editor of the book series morale provisoire at the Berlin based publishing house Merve. He has translated works by Badiou and Rancière into German and has published broadly on questions of contemporary philosophy.

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Jan Völker

Jan Völker

holds a research position at the Collaborative Research Centre 626 at the Freie Universität Berlin. His research and publications focus on Kantian aesthetics, contemporary political philosophy, and the relation of art and politics. He is co-editor of the series morale provisoire at the Berlin based publisher Merve and co-translator of works by Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière. Publications include: Ästhetik der Lebendigkeit. Kants dritte Kritik (2011), »Kant and the ›spirit as an enlivening principle‹« in: Filosvni vesnik (2009).

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Frank Ruda (ed.), Jan Völker (ed.): Art and Contemporaneity

Frank Ruda (ed.), Jan Völker (ed.)

Art and Contemporaneity

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Although art always takes place in time, its manifestations – actual works of art – can be characterized by the specific and close connection they maintain between contemporaneity and timelessness. Their relation to time must be differentiated in a twofold manner: on the one hand, there is the relation to the time in which they are embedded, and, on the other, the relation to the time that they themselves create. In particular historical conditions a specific temporality of the artwork emerges. Both temporalities are superimposed on by one another, namely as a timelessness of artworks as such. The book assembles a variety of thinkers that confront one of the most crucial questions when dealing with the very definition, concept and operativity of art: How to link art to the concept of the contemporary?