Deracination : historicity, Hiroshima, and the tragic imperative / Walter A. Davis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Davis, Walter A. (Walter Albert), 1942-

Series:

SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture

SUNY series in psychoanalysis and culture Deracination

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social sciences and psychoanalysis.

Political psychology.

History--Philosophy.

History.

Social sciences and psychoanalysis--Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xx, 301 p. )

Place of Publication:

Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using Hiroshima as a concrete example of the ways historians have repressed reality in order to explain events, Davis (English, Ohio State U.) challenges the basic theoretical underpinnings of both humanism and postmodernism, and in the process offers a new theory of "the tragic" as well as a new concept of how history should be written. His new theory depends on existential thinking and is grounded in psychoanalytic inquiry, and he ultimately argues that history contains the power to lead us to a new theory of the psyche. c. Book News Inc.

Contents:

The Way to Hiroshima

Only Connect: Trauma in/and History

The Concept of Crisis and a Hermeneutics of Engagement

Only Connect: Why Hiroshima?

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Explanation

Subjectivity and History

Disciplinarity

Inhumanity Has No/A History: Basil II Bulgaroktonos Vivant

On Psychoanalytic Method: No "Return to Freud"

Engaging the Audience: Agonistic Intersubjectivity

Only Connect: Immanence

The Existentializing Process

Cutting Back Into Life

History as Hermeneutic of Engagement

Internalization and Bad Faith: The Disorder Called the Ego

Authentic Internalization: The Birth of Psyche

Internalization and History

Language, Discourse ( -Communities), the Problem of Style

Horror, as Exemplar

A Modest Proposal

The Sublime and the Kantian Ratio, or, How the White Man Thinks

The Critical Philosophy at Issue

Affect and Attunement

Deracination as Concrete Deconstruction

Reading as Interrogation

Kant's Critique of Judgment, Sections 23-29

Beyond the Beautiful: From Pleasure to Desire

Frameworks: Opposed

Purposiveness: And the Contrapurposive

Affect and Attunement in Depth: Inwardness versus the Ratio

From Ambivalence toward the Object to Intimations of the Bomb

The Psyche in/and History

The Scientific Imagination: Kant as Romantic Poet

Reason and the Bomb

The Collective Subject of History and the Scientific Imagination

The Triumph of Mathematics

Toward the Dynamic Sublime: The Defeat of Mathematics.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-292) and index.

ISBN:

0-585-42895-6