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The Abyss of Representation
Author | : George Hartley |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2003-07-16 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780822384557 |
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From the Copernican revolution of Immanuel Kant to the cognitive mapping of Fredric Jameson to the postcolonial politics of Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, representation has been posed as both indispensable and impossible. In his pathbreaking work, The Abyss of Representation, George Hartley traces the development of this impossible necessity from its German Idealist roots through Marxist theories of postmodernism, arguing that in this period of skepticism and globalization we are still grappling with issues brought forth during the age of romanticism and revolution. Hartley shows how the modern problem of representation—the inability of a figure to do justice to its object—still haunts today's postmodern philosophy and politics. He reveals the ways the sublime abyss that opened up in Idealist epistemology and aesthetics resurfaces in recent theories of ideology and subjectivity. Hartley describes how modern theory from Kant through Lacan attempts to come to terms with the sublime limits of representation and how ideas developed with the Marxist tradition—such as Marx’s theory of value, Althusser’s theory of structural causality, or Zizek’s theory of ideological enjoyment—can be seen as variants of the sublime object. Representation, he argues, is ultimately a political problem. Whether that problem be a Marxist representation of global capitalism, a deconstructive representation of subaltern women, or a Chicano self-representation opposing Anglo-American images of Mexican Americans, it is only through this grappling with the negative, Hartley explains, that a Marxist theory of postmodernism can begin to address the challenges of global capitalism and resurgent imperialism.
The Ring of Representation
Author | : Stephen David Ross |
Publsiher | : SUNY Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1992-07-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0791411109 |
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This book asks how we may undertake to represent representation.
The Event of the Thing
Author | : Michael Marder |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2011-04-19 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781442693128 |
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Jacques Derrida's writings often embed the key themes of deconstruction in a notion of the thing. The Event of the Thing is the most complete examination to date of Derrida's understanding of thinghood and its crucial role in psychoanalysis, ethics, literary theory, aesthetics, and Marxism. Arguing that the thing, as a figure of otherness, destabilizes the metaphysical edifice it underlies, Michael Marder reveals the contributions it makes to critiques of humanism and idealism. Subsequently, the new realism that emerges from deconstruction holds the possibility of an event that problematizes all attempts to objectify the thing. An illuminating analysis of Derrida and phenomenology, The Event of the Thing is an innovative and compelling study of a crucial aspect of one of the twentieth century's greatest thinkers.
Acts of Literature
Author | : Jacques Derrida |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 2017-09-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781135965242 |
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First published in 1992. "Acts of Literature", compiled in close association with Derrida, brings together for the first time a number of Derrida's writings on literary texts on the question of literature. The essays discuss literary figures such as Rousseau, Mallarme, Joyce, Shakespeare and Kafka. Comprising pieces spanning Derrida's career, the collection includes a substantial new interview with him on questions of literature, deconstruction, politics, feminism and history. Derek Attridge provides an introductory essay on deconstruction and the question of literature, and offers suggestions for further reading. These essays examine the place and function of literature in Western culture. They highlight Derrida's interest in literature as a significant cultural institution and as a peculiarly challenging form of writing, with inescapable consequences for our thinking about philosophy, politics and ethics. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics in the field of literary theory and criticism and continental philosophy.
The Abyss Above
Author | : Silke-Maria Weineck |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780791488287 |
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In The Abyss Above, Silke-Maria Weineck offers the first sustained discussion of the relationship between poetic madness and philosophy. Focusing on the mad poet as a key figure in what Plato called "the ancient quarrel between philosophy and poetry," Weineck explores key texts from antiquity to modernity in order to understand why we have come to associate art with irrationality. She shows that the philosophy of madness concedes to the mad a privilege that continues to haunt the Western dream of reason, and that the theory of creative madness always strains the discourse on authenticity, pitching the controlled, repeatable, but restrained labor of philosophy against the spontaneous production of poetic texts said to be, by definition, unique.
Wounded Fiction
Author | : Joseph Adamson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2016-08-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781134970926 |
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This book, first published in 1988, does not concern the theory of poetry so much as the poetry of theory: a poetry that theorizes, that has a "view" on things, that thinks. What or what things does poetry think about, and what do we mean by thinking? The author attempts to answer these questions by examining the work of three poets – Wallace Stevens, César Vallejo, and René Char – and reflects upon the poetry itself. This title will be of interest to students of literature and literary theory.
Translating the Monster
Author | : Douglas Robinson |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2022-10-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9789004519930 |
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What can Finland’s greatest and supposedly least translatable novel tell us about translation and world literature?
The Already Dead
Author | : Eric Cazdyn |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2012-04-16 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780822352280 |
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This book considers how a culture of crisis management&—what Cazdyn calls "the new chronic"&— has come to dominate all aspects of contemporary life, from biomedicine to economics to politics. Drawing from his own experiences battling leukemia and the subsequent effects of his illness on the process of becoming a Canadian citizen, Cazdyn unravels the logic of the new chronic where people find themselves suspended in a space between life and death.