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The rhetoric of failure : deconstruction of skepticism, reinvention of modernism /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York Press,
©1996.
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| Colección: | SUNY series, the margins of literature.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction : Deconstruction of skepticism, reinvention of modernism
- 2. Stanley Cavell and the economy of skepticism: Cavell reading Wittgenstein : linguistic games and the threat of skepticism ; Revision of skepticism : acknowledgment, community and the aesthetics of ordinary speech ; Moments of excess : alterity, metaphor, modernism
- 3. Rhetoric of failure and deconstruction: Unmasking deconstruction :skepticism in disguise? ; Levinas and Derrida : skepticism and the signification of alterity ; Community and communication ; "Hear say yes" : rhetoric, skepticism, modernism
- 4. "The beauty of failure" : Kafka and Benjamin on the task of transmission and translation: "On parables" : exemplarity, transmissibility, figuration ; "The pit of Babel" : translation as the limit of formalism and of linguistic community ; "The ground under our feet" : "The great wall of China"
- 5. The paratactic prose of Samuel Beckett : How it is: The remains of aesthetics : failure, task, obligation ; Impossible invention : aesthetics and the signification of alterity ; Inventions of the possible : Beckett's couples and nightmare of communicative reason ; "The inevitable number" : calculation, community and the divine
- 6. Witold Gombrowicz : forms of life as disfigurement: Rethinking the parameters of modern aesthetics : form, "immaturity," "the interhuman" ; Between philosophy and art : the double articulation of form in Cosmos.