Ideology, rhetoric, aesthetics : for De Man / Andrzej Warminski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warminski, Andrzej.

Series:

Frontiers of theory

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ideology.

Rhetoric.

Aesthetics.

Physical Description:

xiii, 222 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]

Summary:

Explicates and extends Paul de Man's late project of a critique of aesthetic ideology, After a reading of de Man's work in all its rigor - and taking in the aesthetic theory of Kant, Schiller and Hegel-the book goes on to uncover a "material moment" in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit that lives on in Marx and in the Marxist tradition. The book also elucidates de Man's critical reading of Heidegger on the example of Hölderlin, a moment essential for de Man's shift to the question of rhetoric and then to the question of ideology. It ends with a reading of Derrida's "last" text on de Man and its uncanny self-inscription in Rousseau's episode of the stolen ribbon. This book is a major contribution to the understanding of a crucial but much misunderstood (and much repressed) moment-and figure-in the recent history of "theory". It wagers that the kind of reading it represents is needed on the contemporary critical scene, and that rather than harkening back to a past over and done with, it may open up or point to a different future. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Aesthetic Ideology

1 Allegories of Reference: An Introduction to Aesthetic Ideology 3

2 "As the Poets Do It": On the Material Sublime 38

3 Returns of the Sublime: Positing and Performative in Kant, Fichte, and Schiller 65

4 Lightstruck: "Hegel on the Sublime" 79

Part II Hegel/Marx

5 Hegel/Marx: Consciousness and Life 99

6 Man and Self-Consciousness: Kojève, Romantic Ironist 127

7 Next Steps: Lukács, Jameson, Post-Dialectics 137

Part III Heidegger/Derrida

8 Monstrous History: Heidegger Reading Hölderlin 159

9 Discontinuous Shifts: History Reading History 173

10 Machinal Effects: Derrida With and Without de Man 185.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0748681264

9780748681266

OCLC:

851771529