Idiots

“[A] thorough account of the development of Western aesthetic theory toward a poetics of purposelessness.”

“[A] thorough account of the development of Western aesthetic theory toward a poetics of purposelessness.”

Leonhard Emmerling has worked as an art historian in different capacities: as curator and director of art institutions in Germany and New Zealand; as teacher at art academies in Auckland, Düsseldorf, and Munich; and as advisor and director for the Goethe-Institut. His most recent publication is Aesthetics: What For? . Parnal Chirmuley is associate professor at the Centre of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi.