ART'S WAY OUT -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- CHAPTER 1: ART'S WAY -- … OUT? -- AS WE "REMAIN" WITH THE DAY'S REMAINS -- THE REJECTION OF IGNORANCE -- INFANCY, RECURRENCE AND IMPASSE -- Infant modernity -- Empathic recurrence -- Impasse as revolution -- PART I. INFANT MODERNITY -- CHAPTER 2: CHILDHOOD'S GRAMMAR -- "YOUNG AS IT IS …" -- THE METAPHYSICS OF CHILDHOOD -- CHILDHOOD AS A FORMATIVE GRAMMAR -- PED(AGO)GY -- TOY-LIKE WORLDS, MEMORY AND THE ENIGMA -- Carrà: Play and the delight of semblance -- De Chirico: Childhood, openness and interpretation -- CHAPTER 3: MODERNIITY'S CHILDREN -- CATEGORICAL SUGGESTIONS -- GAINED BEING -- TIME DISCLAIMED -- PLAY REPLAYED -- Jacques Rancière: Redistributed play -- Giorgio Agamben: Toys beyond play -- PART II. EMPATHIC RECURRENCE -- CHAPTER 4: STRONG EMPATHY -- SINGULARITY, SUBJECTIVITY AND HYBRIDITY -- ART'S SPECIALITY AND MILITANT ANTIPATHY -- Liberty … -- … and aporetic empathy -- CONVERGENCE, CANONICITY AND REALITY -- Choice beyond designation -- "… the faculty which is supposed to relate us to what is real" -- BACK TO TRUTH, BEAUTY AND GOODNESS? -- Edith Stein: The problem of empathy and art's givenness -- John of the Cross: The dark night and the suspension of knowledge -- CHAPTER 5: WEAK REALITY -- QUESTION AND ILLUSION -- What is cricket, and prickly pears for an answer -- The open use of uselessness -- DOING, JUDGEMENT AND CRITIQUE -- The artist-maker fallacy -- Critical art's quandary -- CLAIMING "REALITY" -- EVENT AND ALTERITY -- Martin Creed: the seriousness of banality -- Alberto Burri: the answer denied -- CHAPTER 6: WEAK ART? -- TRUTH AND TRANSIENCE -- Epoché, difference and the dialectic -- Inhabited truth and the existence of the possible book -- REPOSITIONING ILLUSION -- WEARING THE MASKS OF WORD AND IMAGE -- Tàpies's apparitions -- Why isn't no body nobody? -- THE CYCLE BREAKS ….

CHAPTER 7: OUTWITH BEAUTY -- "HE MUST HAVE REACHED IT!" -- ART AND BEAUTY -- REDEMPTION AND ART'S "PROTEST" -- Michelangelo's "non-beauty" -- Caravaggio's "modernity" -- MUSKY WORDS AND SYLLABLES IN FLIGHT -- PERFECTION DEFERRED -- CHAPTER 8: WITHIN HAPPINESS -- BETWEEN THE IRONIC AND THE IRENIC -- FRAGMENT AS PLASTICITY -- AMOR FATI -- Pasolini, Totò and Ninetto: Oedipus's joy -- Benigni, Breugel and Currin: the cruel, the banal and the obscene -- PART III. IMPASSE AS REVOLUTION -- CHAPTER 9: CULTURE'S LEARNING -- STRUGGLE AND THE QUANDARY OF CULTURAL STUDIES -- "A shyster's trick" -- Télos and production -- Culture beyond Bildung -- LAICITÀ AND THIRD WAY DISCOURSE -- THE PROBLEM OF EMANCIPATION -- Lyotard: struggle as différend -- Laclau: ungrounded emancipation -- KHÔRA AND THE PEDAGOGY OF CULTURE -- CHAPTER 10: EXIT PEDAGOGY -- ART, IMPASSE AND REVOLUTION -- ART'S POLITICAL ANOMALY -- THE CRITIQUE OF MOURNING -- THE COMEDIC AS DIALECTIC -- Mao after Mao -- "Satirical politics" -- "The drama of misrecognition" -- WEAK PEDAGOGY -- REFERENCES -- KEYWORDS.