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Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx : ontology, hauntology, and heterologies of the grotesque /
The Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque probes the polemic status of the other and the dubious nature of the subject from a heterodox perspective of an emblematic grotesque figure, the Sphinx-the mystical trickster and the guardian of sacr...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham :
University Press of America, Inc.,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: the return of the grotesque
- Notes. 1 The primal scenes revisited: archeology and genealogy of the grotesque : 1 the uncanny subject between aesthetics and metaphysics : The current critical scenes: figuration of the grotesque
- Archeology of the grotesque: dis-figuration at the primal scene
- Genealogy of the grotesque: transfiguration in different aesthetic modes
- Conclusion: aesthetics of art and metaphysics of being
- Notes. 2 The mystical encounter between the Sphinx and Oedipus : The Sphinx: emblem of the grotesque and the problematic origin
- The Sphinx at different locations: transfiguration of identities
- The encounter: fall of the Sphinx and rise of Oedipus in the Oedipus legend
- Shift and drift between Oedipus and the Sphinx in and beyond the legend
- The ontological mystery between Oedipus and the Sphinx
- The riddle between Oedipus and the Sphinx
- Conclusion of part one: the uncanny subject of the grotesque. 2 Reconfiguring the grotesque between the Sphinx and Oedipus : 3 The enigmatic Sphinx: the grotesque other in aesthetic speculation : Hege's symbolic art: a metaphysical speculation of the grotesque
- Nietzsche's Dionysus: mythical desires toward the grotesque
- Freud's "the uncanny" and the grotesque: mother and the other
- Notes. 4 Oedipus obsessed: grotesque desires and the phantom subject : Derrida's hauntology: the spectral and specular other
- Solipsistic desire, negative signification, and the ghost subject in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
- The ascetic ideal and nihilistic desire: the disembodied subject and bad conscience in Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals
- Freud's Civilization and its Discontents and The Future of an Illusion: between Oedipal rites and narcissistic desire
- Conclusion of part two: the modern subject
- Notes. 3 The subject of the other(s) in ontology and heterologies : 5 Oracles and ghosts: the dubious other in Lacan's discourse of the subject : Repeating after Freud and the sacred words from the spectral other
- The grotesque: surrealistic images, poststructualist ideas, and modern ethos
- The specular other and the imaginary subject
- The linguistic other and the symbolic subject
- The dubious other(s) in the unconscious
- No other of the other? The wholly or holy other without alterity or difference
- Notes. 6 From ontology to heterologies: a postmodern perspective on otherness : The death of God and the postmodern turn toward the other
- Bakhtin: carnivalizing the grotesque in folk culture
- Kristeva: abjecting the grotesque and the other in process
- Anzaldúa: hybridizing the grotesque: the new Mestiza in ethnographical borderlands
- Notes. Afterword: the cyborg: a post-human return to the grotesque
- Notes. Bibliography
- Index.