Christine Buci-Glucksmann is a French

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and Professor Emeritus from University of Paris VIII specializing in the

aesthetics Aesthetics, or esthetics, is a branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of beauty and taste, as well as the philosophy of art (its own area of philosophy that comes out of aesthetics). It examines aesthetic values, often expressed t ...

of the

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and

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, and

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. Her best-known work in English is ''Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity''.

Background

Christine Buci-Glucksmann began her career as a philosopher in the 1970s with studies of

Friedrich Engels Friedrich Engels ( ,"Engels"
'' Antonio Gramsci Antonio Francesco Gramsci ( , , ; 22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) was an Italian Marxist philosopher, journalist, linguist, writer, and politician. He wrote on philosophy, political theory, sociology, history, and linguistics. He was a fo ...

. She followed this research into

, based primarily around the works of

Walter Benjamin Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin (; ; 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German Jewish philosopher, cultural critic and essayist. An eclectic thinker, combining elements of German idealism, Romanticism, Western Marxism, and Jewish ...

. From this foundation she researched the aesthetics of the

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of the

, which was published as "La Raison baroque" in 1984 and with ''La folie du voir'' in 1986. She cited

Gilles Deleuze Gilles Louis René Deleuze ( , ; 18 January 1925 – 4 November 1995) was a French philosopher who, from the early 1950s until his death in 1995, wrote on philosophy, literature, film, and fine art. His most popular works were the two volu ...

and

Jean-François Lyotard Jean-François Lyotard (; ; ; 10 August 1924 – 21 April 1998) was a French philosopher, sociologist, and literary theorist. His interdisciplinary discourse spans such topics as epistemology and communication, the human body, modern art and ...

as being most influential in guiding her research into Baroque aesthetics. Later she investigated the aesthetics of the virtual with two books: ''La folie du voir: Une esthétique du virtuel'' and ''Esthetique De L'ephemere''. She has written numerous books and articles about

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(for example ''L'art à l'époque virtuel'' (Art in the Age of Virtuality)) and

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, ''Art, Time and Technology: Histories of the Disappearing Body'' (2005) Berg, p. 145 She has also written extensively on artists from

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, for in example in ''Les modernités chinoises''.

Bibliography

Books

In translation: * ''Baroque Reason: The Aesthetics of Modernity'' (translated by Patrick Camiller). London / Thousand Oaks, Calif., Sage, 1994. * ''Gramsci and the State'' (translated by David Fernbach). London, Lawrence and Wishart, 1980. In French: *''L'art à l'époque virtuel'', Arts 8, L'Harmattan, 2004 *''Esthetique de l'éphemère'', Galilée, 2003, *''La folie du voir: Une esthétique du virtuel'', Galilée, 2002 *''Histoire Florale De La Peinture: Hommage à Steve Dawson'', Galilée, 2002, *''L'esthétique du Temps au Japon: Du Zen au Rituel'', Galilée, 2000, *''Peinture, Trois Regards'' (Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Eric De Chassey, Catherine Perret), Ėditions du Regard, 2000, *''Les Frontières Esthétiques de l'Art'', L'Harmattan, 1999, *''L'Oeil Cartographique de L'art'', Galilée, 1996, *''L'enjeu du Beau: Musique et Passion'', Galilée, 1992, *''Tragique de l'Ombre:

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et le Maniérisme'', Galilée, 1990, *(with Fabrice Revault d'Allonnes) ''

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'', Dis Voir, 1987, *''Imaginaires de L'autre: Khatibi et la Mémoire Littéraire'', L'Harmattan, 1987, *''La Folie du Voir: De L'esthétique Baroque'', Galilée, 1986, *''La Raison Baroque: De

Baudelaire Charles Pierre Baudelaire (, ; ; 9 April 1821 – 31 August 1867) was a French poet who also produced notable work as an essayist and art critic. His poems exhibit mastery in the handling of rhyme and rhythm, contain an exoticism inherited fro ...

à Benjamin'', Galilée, 1984, *''Ouverture d'une Discussion: Dix Interventions à La Rencontre des 400 Intellectuels à Vitry'', F. Maspero, 1978, *''Gramsci et l'Ėtat: Pour Une Théorie Materialiste de la Philosophie'', Fayard, 1975,

Essays

* "Eurydice et les scènes de la peinture." Verso No. 8 (1997). * "The Eurydices." Parallax Parallax No.10 (1999). * "Images d'absence." Les Cahiers des Regards (1993). * "Images of Absence in the Inner Space of Painting," in Inside the Visible. Ed. C. De Zegher. (MIT Press, 1996). * "Inner Space of Painting," in Bracha L. Ettinger: Halala—Autistwork. (The Israel Museum, 1995). * "L'oeil nomade et critique," in L'oeil cartographique de l'art. (Galilée, 1996).

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