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A fascinating comparison of the work of Heinrich von Kleist and Herman Melville.
Figures of Simplicity explores a unique constellation of figures from philosophy and literature-Heinrich von Kleist, Herman Melville, G. W. Leibniz, and Alexander Baumgarten-in an attempt to recover alternative conceptions of aesthetics and dimensions of thinking lost in the disciplinary narration of aesthetics after Kant. This is done primarily by tracing a variety...
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Explores the conceptualization of the Freudian uncanny in various late-twentieth-century theoretical and critical discourses (literary studies, psychoanalysis, cultural studies, art history, trauma studies, architecture, etc.).
The Unconcept is the first genealogy of the concept of the Freudian uncanny, tracing the development, paradoxes and movements of this negative concept through various fields and disciplines from psychoanalysis, literary theory...
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The Doppelgänger or Double presents literature as the "double" of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelgänger is literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity. The Doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of Idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality and human agency. This critique prefigures post-War extrapolations of the subject as de-centered....
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Develops the sustained, relational, dynamic, and reflective attention demanded by Gertrude Stein's novel into a theory of reading and critical analysis.
Arguing that Gertrude Stein's monumental novel The Making of Americans models a radically aesthetic relation to the world, E. L. McCallum demonstrates how the novel teaches us to read differently, unmaking our habits of reading. Each of the chapters works through close readings of Stein's text and...
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«Aún / hay cantos que cantar más allá / de los hombres». Estos versos de Paul Celan ofrecen una clave para comprender la singularidad radical de uno de los mayores poetas europeos del siglo XX. En Celan el poema siempre lleva consigo lo humano y al mismo tiempo lo trasciende, en el sentido de que sobrepasa el horizonte crepuscular de una tradición humanista que ha llegado a convivir pacíficamente con la destrucción de los valores y los ideales...
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The scenes of Babel and Pentecost, the original confusion of tongues and their redemption through translation, haunt German Romanticism and Idealism. This book begins by retracing the ways in which the task of translation, so crucial to Romantic writing, is repeatedly tied to prophecy, not in the sense of telling future events, but in the sense of speaking in the place of another-most often unbeknownst to the speaker herself. In prophetic speech,...
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György Lukács was a Hungarian Marxist philosopher, writer, and literary critic who shaped mainstream European Communist thought. Soul and Form was his first book, published in 1910, and it established his reputation, treating questions of linguistic expressivity and literary style in the works of Plato, Kierkegaard, Novalis, Sterne, and others. By isolating the formal techniques these thinkers developed, Lukács laid the groundwork for his later...
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Provocative reading of the role masochism plays in structuring the aesthetics and political philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Theorization of sensual desire was not uncommon in the eighteenth century; like many materialists of the French Enlightenment, Jean-Jacques Rousseau rejected imperatives founded on metaphysical suppositions and viewed the senses as the only valid source of philosophical knowledge. In Social Contract, Masochist Contract,...
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Probing study of how literature can redeem the revelatory, redemptive powers of language.
In this probing look at Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and the stories of W. G. Sebald, Redeeming Words offers a philosophical meditation on the power of language in literature. David Kleinberg-Levin draws on the critical theory of Benjamin and Adorno; the idealism and romanticism of Kant, Hegel, Hölderlin, Novalis, and Schelling; and the...
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Mocking Bird Technologies brings together a range of perspectives to offer an extended meditation on bird mimicry in literature: the way birds mimic humans, the way humans mimic birds, and the way mimicry of any kind involves technologies that extend across as well as beyond languages and species. The essays examine the historical, poetic, and semiotic problem of mimesis exemplified both by the imitative behavior of parrots, starlings, and other mocking...
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The Work of Difference addresses a fundamental ontological question: What is literature? And at the heart of this question, it argues, is the problem of the new. How is it that new works or new forms are possible within the rule-governed orders of history, language use, or the social? How are new works in turn recognizable to already-existing institutions? Tracing the relationship between literature and the problem of newness back to a set of concerns...
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Philosophers of aesthetics, from Baumgarten to Hegel, paid considerable attention to art and artists of the early modern period. Yet early modern artistic practices scarcely figure in recent work on aesthetics as a branch of philosophy in the eighteenth century. This book addresses that gap, elaborating the extent to which artworks and practices of the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries were accompanied by an immense range of discussions about...
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A pathbreaking work about the way literature teaches us to use our imagination.
We often attribute to our imaginative life powers that go beyond ordinary perception or sensation. In Dreaming by the Book, the noted scholar Elaine Scarry explores the apparently miraculous but in fact understandable processes by which poets and writers confer those powers on us: how they teach us the work of imaginative creation.
Writers from Homer to Heaney, Scarry...
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Elements of Criticism (1762) is a philosophical work by Henry Home, Lord Kames. Published at the height of his career as a leading legal and cultural figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, Elements of Criticism has been credited as a crucial academic work in the development of modern English literary studies. "The science of criticism tends to improve the heart not less than the understanding…A just taste in the fine arts, by sweetening and harmonizing...
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En busca de las palabras reúne los textos críticos y filosóficos sobre literatura y arte escritos por Oscar del Barco a lo largo de más de cuarenta años. En todos ellos es posible advertir una constante: la concepción del arte como una manifestación de lo sagrado, donde tanto el creador como el receptor no son más que oportunidades para la aparición del misterio de la existencia.
A contrapelo de la mayoría de las corrientes estéticas contemporáneas,...
18) La música de la República: Ensayos sobre las conversaciones de Sócrates y los escritos de Platón
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En palabras de su autora: ¿Quién ha pasado toda una vida leyendo los escritos de Platón y no considera la República su obra central? Es inagotable, la conversación más larga de Sócrates. En consecuencia, en medio de esta colección hay cuatro piezas sobre la República. Sin embargo, el diálogo que más me ha dado que pensar es el Sofista. Contiene lo que me parece el tercer descubrimiento más portentoso de la antigüedad para la filosofía...
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Publicado como primera sección del libro titulado "Faux pas" (1943), "De la angustia al lenguaje" reúne a su vez una serie de pequeños ensayos centrados en torno a la literatura y la lengua, y sus aporías, a partir del diálogo, crítico y creativo, que Maurice Blanchot, de una forma singular y con su inconfundible estilo, establece con autores tan diferentes como son su gran amigo Bataille y el Maestro Eckhart, Racine y Blake, Kierkegaard y Proust,...
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St. Matthew Passion is Hans Blumenberg's sustained and devastating meditation on Jesus's anguished cry on the cross, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" Why did this abandonment happen, what does it mean within the logic of the Gospels, how have believers and nonbelievers understood it, and how does it live on in art? With rare philological acuity and vast historical learning, Blumenberg unfolds context upon context in which this cry has reverberated,...
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