Bøger af Cecilia Sjoholm

What is truth and who speaks it? In the exhibition I Always Tell the Truth at Bonniers Konsthall in 2018, Dora García explores the concept of truth through film, drawing, text, and performance.

Kunsten som Forum på tryk taler ind i en tid, hvor mennesket verden over har lært isolationens kølige favntag at kende og hvor det kun er blevet endnu mere væsentligt at samarbejde og at undersøge kunstens evne til at skabe mangfoldige fællesskaber. De tre første udgivelser i serien behandler på forskellig vis de præmisser og strukturer i hvilke mennesket i dag lever i en politisk virkelighed og det er tekster, hvor skabelsen af fællesskaber står centralt.I sit essay Virkelighedssans: Hannah Arendt om Kant og æstetik genaktualiserer professor i æstetik, Cecilia Sjöholm, Arendts begreb om virkelighedssansen som en fælles sans, der yder modstand imod autoritære grupperinger, som forsøger at så tvivl om verdens realitet ved at fabrikere fiktive virkeligheder. I den forbindelse fremhæves kunstens særlige evne til at artikulere og højne sansen for det liv og fællesskab, vi alle er del af.

Cecilia Sjoholm reads Hannah Arendt as a philosopher of the senses, grappling with questions of vision, hearing, and touch even in her political work. Constructing an Arendtian theory of aesthetics from the philosopher's fragmentary writings on art and perception, Sjoholm begins a vibrant new chapter in Arendt scholarship that expands her relevance for contemporary philosophers.Arendt wrote thoughtfully about the role of sensibility and aesthetic judgment in political life and on the power of art to enrich human experience. Sjoholm draws a clear line from Arendt's consideration of these subjects to her reflections on aesthetic encounters and works of art mentioned in her published writings and stored among her memorabilia. This delicate effort allows Sjoholm to revisit Arendt's political concepts of freedom, plurality, and judgment from an aesthetic point of view and incorporate Arendt's insight into current discussions of literature, music, theater, and visual art. Though Arendt did not explicitly outline an aesthetics, Sjoholm's work substantively incorporates her perspective into contemporary reckonings with radical politics and their relationship to art.

What if psychoanalysis had chosen Antigone rather than Oedipus? This book traces the relation between ethics and desire in important philosophical texts that focus on femininity and use Antigone as their model. It shows that the notion of feminine desire is conditioned by a view of women as being prone to excesses and deficiencies in relation to ethical norms and rules.