The doppelga nger literature s philosophy 1st Edition by Dimitris Vardoulakis – Ebook PDF Instant Download/Delivery: 0823238393, 9780823238392
Full download The doppelga nger literature s philosophy 1st Edition after payment
Product details:
ISBN 10: 0823238393
ISBN 13: 9780823238392
Author: Dimitris Vardoulakis
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 decentred. From this perspective, the Doppelgänger has a “family resemblance” to current conceptualizations of subjectivity. It becomes the emblematic subject of modernity. This is the first significant study on the Doppelgänger’s influence on philosophical thought. The Doppelgänger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophy’s relation to literature. Vardoulakis demonstrates this by employing the Doppelgänger to read literature philosophically and to read philosophy as literature. The Doppelgänger then appears instrumental in the self-conception of both literature and philosophy.
The doppelga nger literature s philosophy 1st Table of contents:
1. The Critique of Loneliness: The Genesis of the Doppelgänger
Isolation: Toward a Political Placement of the Doppelgänger
Harrington’s “Flies”: Kant’s Madness
The Black Nothing and the White Nothing: Jean Paul’s Clavis Fichtiana
The Return of Negation: Freud’s “The ‘Uncanny’”
“Double Acts” and Transformation
2. The Subject of Modernity: Law and Temporality in Alexandros Papadiamantes
… and …: The Doppelgänger as the Subject of Modernity
Community with the Dead: Self-Confession in The Murderess
The Penumbra: Obligations
3. The Task of the Doppelgänger: Jean Paul as Collocutor of Maurice Blanchot
4. The Politics of the Doppelgänger: Universal History and Cosmopolitanism
Automatism, Autonomy
The Subject of History in Walter Benjamin
Displacement: Figuring the Cosmopolitan in Alasdair Gray’s Poor Things
5. Self-Inscriptions: Failing Kafka and Benjamin
The Pure Machine’s Gambit: Benjamin’s “Thesis I”
World Theater and Nature Theater
Kafka’s “Lost Gesture”
Lying with Benjamin
Notes
People also search for The doppelga nger literature s philosophy 1st:
the doppelga nger literature s philosophy
doppelganger philosophy
the doppelganger archetype
the doppelganger theory
doppelganger literature
Tags: Dimitris Vardoulakis, doppelga, literature