Post-Exceptionalism: Art After Political Theology

by Arne De Boever

Postmodernism has come and gone, but the belief that artists and works of art are exceptional is alive and well. Post-Exceptionalism speculates that this is so because postmodernism, when it declared the death of the author and celebrated the copy, failed to name political theology as its fundamental target. In a time when sovereignty is experiencing a dubious global revival, the moment has come to reconsider the artist and the work of art...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399539698
• ISBN13: 9781399539692
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 368 Pages