Dumm My Father's House

On Will Barnet's Painting
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7728-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 144 Seiten

Political philosopher Thomas Dumm’s wide-ranging reflections on a series of paintings by the American artist Will Barnet (1911–2012) depicting the artist’s family members and childhood home.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dumm, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Preface ix
Introduction. The Living and the Dead 1
1. My Father's House 35
2. The Dream 45
3. The Family (The Kitchen) 55
4. The Mantle 65
5. The Vase 73
6. Three Windows 83
7. The Mother 91
8. The Father 99
9. The Golden Frame 107
Conclusion. Becoming Human 115
Notes 121
Index 123

Über Autor(innen)

Thomas Dumm is William H. Hastie '25 Professor of Political Ethics at Amherst College. He is the author of Loneliness as a Way of Life, A Politics of the Ordinary, Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom, and Democracy and Punishment: Disciplinary Origins of the United States, and a coeditor of Performances of Violence.