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The rhetoric of failure : deconstruction of skepticism, reinvention of modernism / Ewa Płonowska Ziarek. [electronic resource]
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ziarek, Ewa Płonowska, 1961-
- Series:
- SUNY series, the margins of literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deconstruction.
- Postmodernism.
- Ethics, Modern--20th century.
- Ethics, Modern.
- Aesthetics, Modern--20th century.
- Aesthetics, Modern.
- Skepticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 247 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c1996.
- Contents:
- 1. Introduction : Deconstruction of skepticism, reinvention of modernism
- 2. Stanley Cavell and the economy of skepticism: Cavell reading Wittgenstein : linguistic games and the threat of skepticism ; Revision of skepticism : acknowledgment, community and the aesthetics of ordinary speech ; Moments of excess : alterity, metaphor, modernism
- 3. Rhetoric of failure and deconstruction: Unmasking deconstruction :skepticism in disguise? ; Levinas and Derrida : skepticism and the signification of alterity ; Community and communication ; "Hear say yes" : rhetoric, skepticism, modernism
- 4. "The beauty of failure" : Kafka and Benjamin on the task of transmission and translation: "On parables" : exemplarity, transmissibility, figuration ; "The pit of Babel" : translation as the limit of formalism and of linguistic community ; "The ground under our feet" : "The great wall of China"
- 5. The paratactic prose of Samuel Beckett : How it is: The remains of aesthetics : failure, task, obligation ; Impossible invention : aesthetics and the signification of alterity ; Inventions of the possible : Beckett's couples and nightmare of communicative reason ; "The inevitable number" : calculation, community and the divine
- 6. Witold Gombrowicz : forms of life as disfigurement: Rethinking the parameters of modern aesthetics : form, "immaturity," "the interhuman" ; Between philosophy and art : the double articulation of form in Cosmos.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-4384-2484-1
- 0-585-07655-3
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