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Author : Leslie Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 026803107X
Hill is concerned with the idea of the future in literary texts, and how notions of the future are essential to their very existence.
Author : Leslie Hill,Brian Nelson,Dimitris Vardoulakis
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0874139465
What does it mean to come after Blanchot? Three things, at least. First, it is to recognise that it is no longer possible to believe in an essentialist determination of literary discourse or of aesthetic experience. All this has disappeared; and there is no way back. Second, there is the question of history. What is Blanchot's legacy to us, his readers? Any name, however irreplaceably singular, is always already preceded, limited, challenged even, by the abiding anonymity of the person, animal, or thing it claims to name. Every name is necessarily impersonal, anonymous, other. Blanchot after Blanchot, then, can best be understood in the sense of that which is according to Blanchot - and that is nothing other than the infinite process of reading and rereading Blanchot: without end. Here, a third meaning to the phrase after Blanchot comes into view. For if we come after Blanchot, it is surely because Blanchot is still before us, still in front, still in the future, still to come.
Author : François Laruelle
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780745681894
In this important new book, the leading philosopherFrançois Laruelle examines the role of intellectuals in oursocieties today, specifically with regards to criminal justice. Heargues that, rather than concerning themselves with abstractphilosophical notions like justice, truth and violence,intellectuals should focus on the human victims. Drawing on hisinfluential theory of ‘non-philosophy’, he shows how wecan submit the theorizing of intellectuals to the scrutiny of theeveryday suffering of the victims of crime. In the course of a wide-ranging discussion with Philippe Petit,Laruelle suspends the presumed authority of intellectuals bychallenging the image of the ‘dominant intellectual’exemplified by philosophers such as Sartre, Foucault, Lyotard andDebray. In place of domination, he puts forward instead a theory of‘determination’: the determined intellectual is onewhose character is conditioned by his relationship to the victim,rather than one who attempts to dominate the victim’sexperience through a process of theorizing. While philosophyconsistently takes the voice away from victims of suffering,non-philosophy is able to construct a theory of violence and crimethat gives voice to the victim. This highly original book will be essential reading for allthose interested in contemporary French philosophy and all thoseconcerned with justice in the modern world.
Author : Aïcha Liviana Messina
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781438489018
The Writing of Innocence explores the topic of innocence and the peculiar relationship to Christianity in the writing of Maurice Blanchot. Its starting point is that innocence is not a condition relegated to a mythical past but rather one resulting from the construction of the subject in and through language. Hence, we don't lose innocence; instead, we are lost by innocence. It is an excess, not a lack. This inverted notion of innocence raises new ethical and political issues that Aïcha Liviana Messina unfolds through vigorous re-readings of a series of biblical motifs, including law, grace, and apocalypse. The closing chapter turns to the convergences and divergences between Jean-Luc Nancy's and Blanchot's understandings of the deconstruction of Christianity. With a foreword by philosopher Serge Margel, The Writing of Innocence offers a fresh perspective on Blanchot's writings in general and on his dialogue with Hegel in particular. While staging innocence in its philosophical and literary dimensions, The Writing of Innocence provides singular readings of works by Kierkegaard, Agamben, Derrida, Nancy, Camus, Hugo, and Kafka.
Author : Laura Salisbury
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748649709
Ranging widely over Beckett's fiction, drama and critical writings, the book demonstrates that it is through Beckett's comic timing that we can understand the double gesture of his art: the ethical obligation to represent the world how it is while, at the
Author : Derval Tubridy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108483247
The first sustained exploration of aporia as a vital, subversive, and productive figure within Beckett's prose and theatre.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487508203
The Reception of Northrup Frye takes a thorough accounting of the presence of Frye in existing works and argues against Frye's diminishing status as an important critical voice.
Author : Jean-Michel Rabaté
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501331879
This volume makes a significant contribution to both the study of Derrida and of modernist studies. The contributors argue, first, that deconstruction is not “modern”; neither is it “postmodern” nor simply “modernist.” They also posit that deconstruction is intimately connected with literature, not because deconstruction would be a literary way of doing philosophy, but because literature stands out as a “modern” notion. The contributors investigate the nature and depth of Derrida's affinities with writers such as Joyce, Kafka, Antonin Artaud, Georges Bataille, Paul Celan, Maurice Blanchot, Theodor Adorno, Samuel Beckett, and Walter Benjamin, among others. With its strong connection between philosophy and literary modernism, this highly original volume advances modernist literary study and the relationship of literature and philosophy.
Author : Zahi Zalloua
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780810137806
Engaging scholars from across humanistic fields grappling with the role and value of theory in our times, Theory's Autoimmunity argues for reclaiming theory's skepticism as a value. To cultivate theory's skeptical impulses is to embrace what Jacques Derrida has termed autoimmunity: a condition of openness to the outside—openness of the self, the community, democracy, or other ideals—that allows for change. Openness to change comes with risks, and the self-protective temptation to immunize oneself or one's community against these risks is strong. Yet without such risks, without openness to otherness, no encounter with the new, with difference, can ever take place. Without autoimmunity, theory becomes stagnant and programmatic, unable to receive and respond to the other or the event, to address, revise, and produce new meanings. Taking up the challenge of thinking theory as skepticism, with and against philosophy, this study turns to literature as an interlocutor, investigating the ways theory, like the literary works of Montaigne, Baudelaire, Stendhal, Morrison, or Duras, declines to put on the interpretive brakes, to stop reading at a point of understanding. Undoing and remaking itself, theory—those critical interpretive practices that revel in the creation and proliferation of meaning—becomes autoimmune.
Author : Paul Halmos
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-08-21
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317651451
Are human misery, poverty and despair a result of personal inadequacy or social injustice? Therefore is the solution to these problems psychotherapy or political action? In one of the most important books on social work for a decade, Paul Halmos tries to resolve a dilemma which many social workers experience acutely – the conflict between a desire to help those in need and a fear that, by doing so, they merely support a political system which should, itself, be changed. Such a dilemma was highlighted during the sixties when 'casework' and personal counselling became discredited by the 'rediscovery' of widespread poverty and inequality in western society. To many the only solution seemed to be urgent and radical political action. For Professor Halmos the realities are more complex – an exclusive preoccupation with either personal or political solutions is unlikely to prove fruitful – what is needed is a dual sensitivity and balance. Yet for the author it is the political solution which carries within it the greater risk and he warns of the dangers inherent in the total politicization of social concerns. He argues that social action can become political action and ultimately political control.
Author : Jake Nabasny
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781794784949
Self, Ego, Subject � these are the terms that philosophers have used to define that indelible mark of an individual. At the same time, however, a counter-current runs through the history of philosophy and culture that challenges the primordiality and privilege of the purportedly self-identical Subject. This collection of texts from 2012-2018 traces the history of disavowal, a line of escape from subjectivity. Breaking free of the binary logic of affirmation-negation, these essays contend that a third possibility exists in the realm of human action: disavowal. Disavowal is a sly sidestepping of boolean responses, an absolute negation that nevertheless posits an alternative course of action. Positing that a refusal to participate in the current global capitalist order need not be a refusal of the world as such this collection engages in topics from Cartesian subjectivity to Sia's live performance of "Chandelier," these essays provide a timely meditation on an urgent question and illuminate a path forward.
Author : Shane Weller
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nihilism (Philosophy) in literature
ISBN : 9781904713081
This study examines the relationship between Samuel Beckett and nihilism.
Author : Christopher Braider
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351955966
In his monumental study, Christopher Braider explores the dialectical contest between history and truth that defines the period of cultural transition called the 'baroque'. For example, Annibale Carracci's portrayal of the Stoic legend of Hercules at the Crossroads departs from earlier, more static representations that depict an emblematic demigod who has already rejected the fallen path of worldly Pleasure for the upward road of heroic Virtue. Braider argues that, in breaking with tradition in order to portray a tragic soliloquist whose dominant trait is agonized indecision, Carracci joins other baroque artists, poets and philosophers in rehearsing the historical dilemma of choice itself. Carracci's picture thus becomes a framing device that illuminates phenomena as diverse as the construction of gender in baroque painting and science, the Pauline ontology of art in Caravaggio and Rembrandt, the metaphysics of baroque soliloquy and the dismantling of Cartesian dualism in Cyrano de Bergerac and Pascal.
Author : Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400998339
Author : Derek Attridge
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748653812
Newly available in paperback, this book traces a close engagement with Derrida's writing over two decades examining the relationship between deconstruction, literature and ethics.