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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
Autor principal: Brodsky, Claudia, 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2009.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Signs Of Place
  • Referent and Annihilation: "X" Marks the Spot
  • Theory of Appropriation: Rousseau, Schmitt, and Kant
  • "Sovereignty" over Language: Of Lice and Men
  • Goethe after Lanzmann: Literature Represents "X"
  • pt. 1: Goethe's Timelessness
  • Faust's Building: Theory as Practice
  • Faust's and Heidegger's Technology: Building as Poiesis
  • In the Place of Language
  • "Time Refound"
  • pt. 2: Built Time
  • Building, Story, and Image
  • Benjamin's and Goethe's Passagen: Ottilie under Glass
  • Nature in Pieces
  • "Superfluous Stones"
  • "Stones for Thought"
  • Kant's and Goethe's Schatzkammer: Buried Time
  • Afterword Gravity: Metaphysics of the Referent.