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Author | : Patrick Dove |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 342 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1438461569 |
Download Literature and "Interregnum" Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Literature and "Interregnum" examines the unraveling of the political forms of modernity through readings of end-of-millennium literary texts by César Aira, Marcelo Cohen, Sergio Chejfec, Diamela Eltit, and Roberto Bolaño. The opening of national spaces to the global capitalist system in the 1980s culminates in the suspension of key principles of modernity, most notably that of political sovereignty. While the neoliberal model subjugates modern forms of social organization and political decision making to an economic rationale, the market is unable to provide a new ordering principle that could fill the empty place formerly occupied by the national figure of the sovereign. The result is a situation that resembles what the Italian political philosopher Antonio Gramsci termed "interregnum," an in-between time in which "the old [order] is dying and the new cannot be born." The recoding of history as literary form provides occasions for reconsidering modern conceptualizations of aesthetic experience, mood, temporality, thought, politics, ethical experience, as well as of literature itself as social institution. In his analysis, Patrick Dove seeks to create dialogues between literature and theoretical perspectives, including Continental philosophy, political thought, psychoanalysis, and sociology of globalization. The author highlights the connections between mass media, technology, politics, and economics.
Author | : Anita Gilman Sherman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2021-04-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1108905358 |
Download Skepticism in Early Modern English Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This ambitious account of skepticism's effects on major authors of England's Golden Age shows how key philosophical problems inspired literary innovations in poetry and prose. When figures like Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert of Cherbury, Cavendish, Marvell and Milton question theories of language, degrees of knowledge and belief, and dwell on the uncertainties of perception, they forever change English literature, ushering it into a secular mode. While tracing a narrative arc from medieval nominalism to late seventeenth-century taste, the book explores the aesthetic pleasures and political quandaries induced by skeptical doubt. It also incorporates modern philosophical views of skepticism: those of Stanley Cavell, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Roland Barthes, and Hans Blumenberg, among others. The book thus contributes to interdisciplinary studies of philosophy and literature as well as to current debates about skepticism as a secularizing force, fostering civil liberties and religious freedoms.
Author | : Michael Fischer |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1989-04-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226251411 |
Download Stanley Cavell and Literary Skepticism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Cavell is read avidly by students of film, television, painting, and music, but especially by students of literature, for whom he offers major readings of Thoreau. Fischer (English, U. of New Mexico) shows why Cavell's work is also of particular relevance to the controversies surrounding poststructuralist literary theory. Paper edition (0-226-25141-1) is available for $10.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : David Louis Sedley |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Skepticism in literature |
ISBN | : 9780472115280 |
Download Sublimity and Skepticism in Montaigne and Milton Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Boldly investigates the relationship between the sublime as an aesthetic category and the emergence of skepticism as a philosophical problem
Author | : Pablo Oyarzun |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2022-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1438486812 |
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Literature and Skepticism links the skeptic attitude to the conditions of possibility in (modern) literature—in particular, the narrative form and the essay. Pablo Oyarzun proposes that narrative and the essay document the relationship between literature and skepticism in different but complementary and, at the same time, complicit ways. As the narrative performance reaches the structural limit of the literary—understood as the domain of fiction—a sort of para-discursive reflection critically accompanies this performance, discussing it, ironizing it, feigning to disbelieve it, or overtly belying it. Yet the narrative doubtfully takes distance from itself, surrendering all right to a final truth at the very moment at which truth emerges, essayistic, to the surface. The authors considered—Montaigne, Swift, Lichtenberg, Kleist, Kafka, and Borges—are eminent representatives of one and the other form, and all of the works analyzed are cases of a complex interplay between narrative and essay.
Author | : Maurice S. Lee |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2013-06-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199985812 |
Download Uncertain Chances Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Maurice Lee's study illustrates how writers such as Poe, Melville, Douglass, Thoreau, Dickinson, and others participated in a broad intellectual and cultural shift in which Americans increasingly learned to live with the threatening and wonderful possibilities of chance.
Author | : Michelle Zerba |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 271 |
Release | : 2012-07-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110702465X |
Download Doubt and Skepticism in Antiquity and the Renaissance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An interdisciplinary study of the forms and uses of uncertainty in important works of literature and philosophy in antiquity and the Renaissance.
Author | : Kath Filmer-Davies |
Publisher | : Popular Press |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780879725549 |
Download Scepticism and Hope in Twentieth Century Fantasy Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Filmer argues that, in secular society, the psychological need to hope is met in the literature of fantasy. She illustrates her thesis using the works of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Peter Beagle, Susan Cooper, Madeleine L'Engle, George Orwell, Russell Hoban, James Thurber, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Alan Garner, Ursula LeGuin, and Patricia Wrightson. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Eli Hirsch |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2017-12-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1350033871 |
Download Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Radical Skepticism and the Shadow of Doubt brings something new to epistemology both in content and style. At the outset we are asked to imagine a person named Vatol who grows up in a world containing numerous people who are brains-in-vats and who hallucinate their entire lives. Would Vatol have reason to doubt whether he himself is in contact with reality? If he does have reason to doubt, would he doubt, or is it impossible for a person to have such doubts? And how do we ourselves compare to Vatol? After reflection, can we plausibly claim that Vatol has reason to doubt, but we don't? These are the questions that provide the novel framework for the debates in this book. Topics that are treated here in significantly new ways include: the view that we ought to doubt only when we philosophize; epistemological “dogmatism”; and connections between radical doubt and “having a self.” The book adopts the innovative form of a “dialogue/play.” The three characters, who are Talmud students as well as philosophers, hardly limit themselves to pure philosophy, but regale each other with Talmudic allusions, reminiscences, jokes, and insults. For them the possibility of doubt emerges as an existential problem with potentially deep emotional significance. Setting complex arguments about radical skepticism within entertaining dialogue, this book can be recommended for both beginners and specialists.
Author | : Leen Spruit |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 476 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9789004098831 |
Download Species intelligibilis. 1. Classical roots and medieval discussions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The main purpose of this book is to offer a comprehensive historical analysis of the discussions on a crucial problem for the Medieval theory of knowledge: the formal mediation of sensible reality in intellectual knowledge.