In The Place Of Language : Literature And The Architecture Of The Referent.

The "place" in the title of Claudia Brodsky's remarkable new book is the intersection of language with building, the marking, for future reference, of material constructions in the world. The "referent" Brodsky describes is not something first found in nature and then named...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Fordham University Press 2009.
Temas:
Literature > Philosophy.
Reference (Linguistics)
Reference (Philosophy)
Semiotics and literature.
Référence (Linguistique)
Référence (Philosophie)
Sémiotique et littérature.
Electronic resource.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface. Marked Change: A Brief Account
  • INTRODUCTION. Signs of Place
  • 1. Referent and Annihilation: 8216;8216;X Marks the Spot
  • 2. Theory of Appropriation: Rousseau, Schmitt, and Kant
  • 3. 8216;8216;Sovereignty over Language: Of Lice and Men
  • 4. Goethe after Lanzmann: Literature Represents 8216;8216;X
  • PART I. Goethes Timelessness
  • 1. Fausts Building: Theory as Practice
  • 2. Fausts and Heideggers Technology: Building as Poiesis
  • 3. In the Place of Language
  • 4. 8216;8216;Time Refound
  • PART II. Built Time
  • 1. Building, Story, and Image
  • 2. Benjamins and Goethes Passagen: Ottilie under Glass
  • 3. Nature in Pieces
  • 4. 8216;8216;Superfluous Stones
  • 5. 8216;8216;Stones for Thought
  • 6. Kants and Goethes Schatzkammer: Buried Time
  • AFTERWORD. Gravity: Metaphysics of the Referent
  • Appendix. Continuation of Notes
  • Bibliography.

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