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    Apropos of Something : A History of Irrelevance and Relevance (2022)
    Chicago :University of Chicago Press,
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    almahu_9949546557702882
    Format: 1 online resource (448 p.) : , 62 color plates, 5 halftones
    ISBN: 9780226453262 , 9783110993899
    Content: A history of the idea of "relevance" since the nineteenth century in art, criticism, philosophy, logic, and social thought. Before 1800 nothing was irrelevant. So argues Elisa Tamarkin's sweeping meditation on a key shift in consciousness: the arrival of relevance as the means to grasp how something that was once disregarded, unvalued, or lost to us becomes interesting and important. When so much makes claims to our attention every day, how do we decide what is most valuable right now? Relevance, Tamarkin shows, was an Anglo-American concept, derived from a word meaning "to raise or to lift up again," and also "to give relief." It engaged major intellectual figures, including Ralph Waldo Emerson and pragmatists and philosophers-William James, Alain Locke, John Dewey, and Alfred North Whitehead-as well as a range of critics, phenomenologists, linguists, and sociologists. Relevance is a struggle for recognition, especially in the worlds of literature, art, and criticism. Poems and paintings in the nineteenth century could now be seen as pragmatic works that make relevance and make interest-that reveal versions of events that feel apropos of our lives the moment we turn to them. Vividly illustrated with paintings by Winslow Homer, Henry Ossawa Tanner, and others, Apropos of Something is a searching philosophical and poetic study of relevance-a concept calling for shifts in both attention and perceptions of importance with enormous social stakes. It remains an invitation for the humanities and for all of us who feel tasked every day with finding the point.
    Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Figures -- , 1. Introduction: Accidentals -- , 2. On the Threshold: Clue, Hint, Poem -- , 3 The Relevance of the Interesting -- , 4 Attention and Selection in a Phenomenal World -- , 5 Salience, or Finding the Point -- , 6 Communication, Translation, and Spirit -- , 7 Relevance Is God -- , 8 Resurrection and Reconstruction -- , 9 The History of Fallacies / The Sophistry of Criticism -- , 10 News and Orientation -- , Acknowledgments -- , Notes -- , Index , Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. , In English.
    In: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993899
    In: EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110994810
    In: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022 English, De Gruyter, 9783110993752
    In: EBOOK PACKAGE Literary, Cultural, Area Studies 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110993738
    In: University of Chicago Complete eBook-Package 2022, De Gruyter, 9783110766509
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780226453095
    Language: English
    Subjects: Philosophy
    RVK:
    CC 4400
    URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780226453262
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    Apropos of something : a history of irrelevance and relevance (2022)
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press
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    UID:
    gbv_1814258930
    Format: 1 online resource (445 pages)
    ISBN: 9780226453262
    Content: Introduction: Accidentals -- On the Threshold: Clue, Hint, Poem -- The Relevance of the Interesting -- Attention and Selection in a Phenomenal World -- Salience, or Finding the Point -- Communication, Translation, and Spirit -- Relevance Is God -- Resurrection and Reconstruction -- The History of Fallacies, The Sophistry of Criticism -- News and Orientation.
    Content: "Before 1800 nothing was irrelevant. So argues Elisa Tamarkin's sweeping cultural history of a key shift in consciousness: the arrival, around 1800, of "relevance" as the means to grasp how something previously disregarded becomes important and interesting. At a time when so much makes claims to attention every day, how does one decide what is most valuable right now? This is not only a contemporary problem. For Ralph Waldo Emerson, the question for the nineteenth century was how, in the immensity and "succession" of objects, anything becomes a proper object of experience. How that question was finally defined as one of relevance is the story of Apropos of Nothing. Relevance, Tamarkin shows, was primarily an Anglo-American concept. It engaged major intellectual figures, centrally the pragmatists-William James, Alain Locke, and John Dewey-and before them thinkers including Emerson and Alfred North Whitehead. Most of all, relevance was a problem for the worlds of art, literature, education, and criticism. These were fascinated by how old, boring, distant, or unfamiliar things get taken in; how they are admitted as meaningful; how they come home to us like the ludicrous raven comes to Edgar Allan Poe's student in the middle of the night in some obscure connection with himself. Many nineteenth-century American artists saw their paintings as pragmatic works that make relevance-that suggest versions of events that feel apropos of our world the moment we see them. (Tamarkin's book is richly illustrated, in color, with works by Winslow Homer, Abbott Handerson Thayer, Edgar Degas, and others.) Relevance remains a conundrum, especially for the humanities. It obliges us to say why we admit Poe's poem-or, say, a line of Emerson's-is interesting enough to study it, to dedicate ourselves to understanding it, to affirming that this effort is, in Emerson's words, "relevant to me and mine, to nature, and the hour that now passes.""
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    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780226453095
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tamarkin, Elisa Apropos of something Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2022 ISBN 9780226453125
    Additional Edition: ISBN 9780226453095
    Language: English
    Subjects: Philosophy
    RVK:
    CC 4400
    Keywords: USA ; Ideengeschichte ; Wichtigkeit ; Bedeutungslosigkeit ; Geschichte 1800-1900
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