Mourning becomes the law : philosophy and representation / Gillian Rose.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rose, Gillian.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, English--20th century.

Philosophy, English.

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

163 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Summary:

In Mourning Becomes the Law, Gillian Rose takes us beyond the impasse of post-modernism or 'despairing rationalism without reason'. Arguing that the post-modern search for a 'new ethics' and ironic philosophy are incoherent, she breathes new life into the debates concerning power and domination, transcendence and eternity.

Mourning Becomes the Law is the philosophical counterpart to Gillian Rose's highly acclaimed memoir Love's Work. She extends similar clarity and insight to discussions of architecture, cinema, painting and poetry, through which relations between the formation of the individual and the theory of justice are connected. At the heart of this reconnection lies a reflection on the significance of the Holocaust and Judaism.

Mourning Becomes the Law reinvents the classical analogy of the soul, the city and the sacred. It returns philosophy, Nietzsche's 'bestowing virtue', to the pulse of our intellectual and political culture.

Contents:

1 Athens and Jerusalem: a tale of three cities 15

2 Beginnings of the day: Fascism and representation 41

3 The comedy of Hegel and the Trauerspiel of modern philosophy 63

4 'Would that they would forsake Me but observe my Torah': Midrash and political authority 77

5 Potter's Field: death worked and unworked 101

6 O! untimely death/Death! 125.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-151) and index.

ISBN:

052157045X

0521578493

OCLC:

35666160