Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1498501338 ISBN 13 : 9781498501330

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2017

Synopsis

Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of several contemporary developments, including the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as well as social life, the renegotiation of historical thinking, and the precarious position of the theoretical humanities within academia. To this end, the volume re-invests the concept of "layering," a concept currently used in a wide range of fields, including metaphor studies and linguistics, cybernetics, the social sciences, art, and architecture. Drawing on existing definitions of "layering," the chapters in this book return to and re-appraise some of the most crucial concerns in the post-1960s theoretical scene: that is, concerns over the strained interplay between writing and the body; textuality and history; critique, différance and the feminine; memory, trace, and the immemorial. The aim of the diverse-often polemical-analyses carried out in this volume is to reactivate the critical force of textual tradition today through a renewed appreciation of its historical embeddedness, its libidinal sources, as well as its complex economy of separation and contact, diachronicity and synchronicity, (re)layering and de-layering.

This collection will be of interest to scholars of continental philosophy, literary theory, gender studies, architecture, film and visual culture studies, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, post-colonial studies, and political and social theory.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Maria Margaroni is Associate Professor in Literary Theory and Feminist Thought at the University of Cyprus.

Apostolos Lampropoulos is professor of comparative literary and cultural studies at the University Bordeaux Montaigne.

William Watkin is professor of contemporary literature and philosophy at Brunel University, UK. He is the author of In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-Garde (Bucknell UP, 2001), On Mourning: Theories of Loss in Modern Literature (Edinburgh UP, 2004) and The Literary Agamben (Continuum, 2010).

Brendan Moran is currently research scholar at the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, and Adjunct associate professor at the University of Calgary, Canada, where he has taught in the Department of Philosophy, the Faculty of Humanities, and the Faculty of Arts. Under the anagrammatic "pseudonym," Monad Rrenban, he has published Wild, Unforgettable Philosophy, a book on Walter Benjamin's early writings. He has also published essays on Benjamin, Agamben, and Salomo Friedlaender, and is completing a book on Benjamin's Kafkan politics.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498501338
• ISBN 13: 9781498501330
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 322
• Éditeur: Margaroni Maria, Lampropoulos Apostolos, Chatzichristou Christakis
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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