Roger Caillois
Esthétique Généralisée Ou Esthétique Fantôme
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4555199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Laurent Jenny (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 59-73 |
| Publication date | 1992-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Littérature (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0047-4800 • E-ISSN: 1958-5926 |
| Publisher | PERSEE Program (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3406/litt.1992.2602 |
| OpenAlex | W2063161562 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The principle of Caillois's Esthétique généralisée is that all in nature is beautiful, in the subject's absence ; but the system is haunted by the ghost of the excluded subject. Caillois's fascination, in his texts on minerals, with the « quarte-fantôme », which carries its own image en abyme within itself, is symptomatic of the fantasm at the heart of his generalised aesthetics - and at the heart of the modern extension of the aesthetic relation
Art · Art history · Extension (predicate logic · Literature · Relation (database · Subject (documents · Computer Science · French Urban and Social Studies · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |