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Ratmoko, David

 
9780820481302: On Spectrality: Fantasies of Redemption in the Western Canon
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0820481300 ISBN 13 : 9780820481302
Editeur : Peter Lang Publishing Inc, 2005

Synopsis

In this bold and highly original work, David Ratmoko offers an analysis of haunting in the history of European literature, law, and politics, in the wake of Derrida's notion of 'spectrality'. Interested in figures of redemption from guilt, he traces the rise of canonical literature through the history of an encryption or transcoding that has produced such fantastic compromises as Exodus, Greek tragedy, Dante's Comedia, and Shakespeare's Hamlet as well as the conversion into capitalism. Addressing the issue of ghosts through our modern crisis of legitimacy, as raised by Benjamin, Schmitt, and Kafka, Ratmoko explores Freud's idea of traumatic fantasy in its capacity of driving the progress of spirituality or spectrality in the Judeo-Christian world.

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À propos de l'auteur

The Author: David Ratmoko teaches English literature at the University of Zurich and is currently a post-doctoral fellow in Yale's Department of Comparative Literature.

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Éditeur
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0820481300
ISBN 13 
9780820481302
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
174
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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