The philosophical Baroque : on autopoietic modernities / by Erik S. Roraback.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roraback, Erik S., author.

Series:

Literary modernism (Leiden) ; Volume 2.

Literary Modernism, 2405-9315 ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Modern.

Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill Rodopi, 2017.

Summary:

In his pioneering study The Philosophical Baroque: On Autopoietic Modernities , Erik S. Roraback argues that modern culture, contemplated over its four-century history, resembles nothing so much as the pearl famously described, by periodizers of old, as irregular, barroco . Reframing modernity as a multi-century baroque, Roraback steeps texts by Shakespeare, Henry James, Joyce, and Pynchon in systems theory and the ideas of philosophers of language and culture from Leibniz to such dynamic contemporaries as Luhmann, Benjamin, Blanchot, Deleuze and Guattari, Lacan, and Žižek. The resulting brew, high in intellectual caffeine, will be of value to all who take an interest in cultural modernity—indeed, all who recognize that “modernity” was (and remains) a congeries of competing aesthetic, economic, historical, ideological, philosophical, and political energies

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction: Re-Framing Modernity

Luhmann and Autopoietic Forms of the (Neo) Baroque Modern: Or, Structure, System, and Contingency

Folds of Desire’s (Dis)contents: Orson Welles, Lacan, and Shakespeare’s King Lear (c. 1606)

The Monad of Deleuze’s Many-Tiered High Baroque Leibniz

Folds of an Autopoietic and Unconscious Monad: Henry James, Benjamin, and Blanchot

(Neo) Baroque Intersections: Finnegans Wake (1939), Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), and L’Écriture du désastre (The Writing of the Disaster) (1980)

Neobaroque Fingerprints: Artistic Authority, Interpretation, and Economic Power/Un-power of Finnegans Wake

Deleuze’s Le pli: Leibniz et le baroque (The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque) (1988) with Joyce’s “stohong baroque” Finnegans Wake

Autopoietic Baroque Energies: Finnegans Wake

Folding Blanchot onto Pynchon: Enlightenment Reason, the Global Technical System, and World Citizenship

Catastrophe, Allegory, and the Philosophical Baroque: A Quartet of Benjamin-Lacan and Joyce-Pynchon

Conclusions

Select Bibliography

Index of Premodern and Modern Authors

Index of Sources

Index of Names and Subjects.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 4, 2017).

ISBN:

90-04-33985-X

OCLC:

976395900

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004339859 DOI