Textual layering : contact, historicity, critique / edited by Maria Margaroni, Apostolos Lampropoulos, and Christakis Chatzichristou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Margaroni, Maria, editor.

Series:

Textures (Lanham, Md.)

Textures: philosophy / literature / culture book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meaning (Philosophy).

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 297 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, 2017.

Summary:

Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of several contemporary developments, including the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as well as social life, the renegotiation of historical thinking, and the precarious position of the theoretical humanities within academia. To this end, the volume re-invests the concept of "layering," a concept currently used in a wide range of fields, including metaphor studies and linguistics, cybernetics, the social sciences, art, and architecture. Drawing on existing definitions of "layering," the chapters in this book return to and re-appraise some of the most crucial concerns in the post-1960s theoretical scene: that is, concerns over the strained interplay between writing and the body; textuality and history; critique, diff rance and the feminine; memory, trace, and the immemorial. The aim of the diverse--often polemical--analyses carried out in this volume is to reactivate the critical force of textual tradition today through a renewed appreciation of its historical embeddedness, its libidinal sources, as well as its complex economy of separation and contact, diachronicity and synchronicity, (re)layering and de-layering. This collection will be of interest to scholars of continental philosophy, literary theory, gender studies, architecture, film and visual culture studies, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, post-colonial studies, and political and social theory.

Contents:

Part 1 Thinking With/Thinking between: Introduction / Apostolos Lampropoulos Lampropoulos, Apostolos 3

1 Profane Mystical Practice: Resisting the Society of the Spectacle or the Society of the "As If" / Frances Restuccia Restuccia, Frances 7

2 Thinking the Image, Technics, and Embodiment: Julia Kristeva's Challenge / John Lechte Lechte, John 23

3 The Layered Being of Merleau-Ponty and the Being Layered of Deleuze: A Comparison of Two Conceptions of Immanentism on the Basis of the Notion "Fold" / Judith Wambacq Wambacq, Judith 39

4 The / Turn and the " " Pause: Agamben, Derrida, and the Stratification of Poetry / William Watkin Watkin, William 49

Part 2 Displaced Pasts, Emerging Topographies: Introduction / Apostolos Lampropoulos Lampropoulos, Apostolos 65

5 Layering and Extending: Architecture's Traumatic Work of Mourning / Michael Beehler Beehler, Michael 71

6 The "Forgotten" as Epic Vorwelt / Brendan Moron Moron, Brendan 81

7 Halal History and Existential Meaning in Salman Rushdie's Early Fiction / Adnan Mahmutovic Mahmutovic, Adnan 95

8 Tactical Reason: Philosophy and the Colonial Question / Marios Constantinou Constantinou, Marios 109

Part 3 De-Layerings of the Feminine: Introduction / Apostolos Lampropoulos Lampropoulos, Apostolos 137

9 Kristeva's Revolt, Illusion, and the Feminine / Gertrude Postl Postl, Gertrude 143

10 The Layering of Abjection in Relation to Fetish: Reading Kristevan Abjection as the Unthought Ground of Fetishism / Tina Chanter Chanter, Tina 155

11 Reviving Oedipus: Oedipus, Anti-Oedipus, and the Nomadic Body in Kristeva / S.K. Keltner Keltner, S.K. 169

12 Tragedy as De-Layering: The Opaque Immediacy of Antigone / Kalliopi Nikolopoulou Nikolopoulou, Kalliopi 183

13 Metaphysical Topographies Re-Layered: Critique and the Feminine / Elena Tzelepis Tzelepis, Elena 195.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-283) and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Textual layering.

ISBN:

9781498501330

1498501338

OCLC:

961008294