Signs of Change: Premodern - Modern - Postmodern (Contemporary Studies in Philosophy and Literature, 4) - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0791424340 ISBN 13 : 9780791424346

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1996

Synopsis

A collection of essays focusing on conventions of change in the arts, philosophy, and literature

This book examines the nature of change in history, philosophy, and culture. Precisely because the idea of change is so vast, the book's strategy is to exercise some control over it by organizing itself as a structured progression of theoretical, political, and ideological concerns whose focus is on change.

Barker begins with the idea of history and historicity and proceeds through an investigation of the relationship of semiotics and hermeneutics to change, to topography and topology as functions of change, to sexuality and gender as political aspects of a hypothetical theory of change, and to the seemingly culminative issue of life and death themselves as functions of change. Finally, the book concludes with a "coda" concerning alterity both as concept and as lived and literary phenomenon ranging from the avant-garde's "drunkenness" to the alterity of the characters in Chinese poetry. Not only does the book not attempt to make categorical statements about the nature of change, but it delights in an open-ended discussion of the implications and reverberations of change throughout the world of human experience.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Stephen Barker is Associate Professor of Modern and Postmodern Literature and Theory at the University of California--Irvine. He is the author of Autoaesthetics: Strategies of the Self After Nietzsche and editor of Excavations and Their Objects: Freud's Colleciton of Antiquity, also published by SUNY Press.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

This book examines the nature of change in history, philosophy, and culture. Precisely because the idea of change is so vast, the book's strategy is to exercise some control over it by organizing itself as a structured progression of theoretical, political, and ideological concerns whose focus is on change. Not only does the book not attempt to make categorical statements about the nature of change, but it delights in an open-ended discussion of the implications and reverberations of change throughout the world of human experience.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791424340
• ISBN 13: 9780791424346
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 440
• Éditeur: Barker Stephen
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible