Literature and weak thought / Andrzej Zawadzki.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zawadzki, Andrzej.

Series:

Cross-roads (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) ; v. 2.

Cross-roads ; Volume 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature--Philosophy.

Literature.

Philosophy, Modern, in literature.

Vattimo, Gianni, 1936-2023--Criticism and interpretation.

Vattimo, Gianni.

Noica, Constantin--Criticism and interpretation.

Noica, Constantin.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book is a reconstruction and presentation of the fundamental assumptions of the so-called weak thought, as elaborated mainly by the Italian hermeneutical philosopher Gianni Vattimo and the Romanian philosopher Constantin Noica in his ontology. Both Noica and Vattimo focus on all that is existentially fragile, deficient, crippled or defective. The way in which weak being manifests itself can be best expressed by using the concept of the trace. Some motifs of weak thought serve to reinterpret certain fundamental concepts of poetics, firstly, the concept of mimesis, treated here as a kind of

Contents:

Cover; Table of contents; Preface; I. WEAK THOUGHT: PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS; Introduction; Noica: The Romanian Fragility of Being; Vattimo: Nihilism, Hermeneutics, Art; Weak Thought in the Context of Philosophical and Cultural Tradition; The Weakening of Nietzsche; Nietzsche, Marx, Emancipation; Between Dialectical Reason and Hermeneutical Reason; Nietzsche, Heidegger, Hermeneutics; Weak Thought and Post-Structuralism; A Lexicon of Weak Thought: Verwindung, Andenken, pietas; Nihilism and Hermeneutics; The Death of Art, Death in Art; The Abyss of Language

II. THE WEAK ONTOLOGY OF THE LITERARY WORKIntroduction; Imitating as Tracing the World; The Three Forms of Mimesis in Plato's Philosophy; The Republic: The Mimesis of Participation; The Sophist: The Mimesis of Similarity; The Theaetetus: The Mimesis of the Trace; The Ethics of the Trace; The Three Versions of the Trace in Contemporary Philosophy; Appendix: Plato's Mimetic Triangle; Sketching the Author; The Crisis of the Subject: Difference, Interpretation, Critical Point; The "Unfortunate Contradiction" of Modern Subjectivity - A Provisional Diagnosis

The Author's Traits: The Trace as a New Formula for the Presence of the Subject in a TextIII. MODERN LITERATURE AND TRACES; Introduction; "Tracing the Traces": An Overview of Weak Ontology in Polish Literature of the Twentieth Century; "Nothing Comes Before Something": Nihilism before Nihilism; "Impoverishment, Weakening, Disintegration": Weak Form in Twentieth-Century Art; "The Disappearance of the Contents of the World"; "Tracing the Traces"; "The Generosity of the Trace": On Leśmian's "Snow"; Gombrowicz and Weak Thought; Weakness and the Trace in the Poetry of Tadeusz Różewicz

"The Poet Weakens, Images Lose Their Strength": Różewicz's Weak form"The traits destroyed by time / portray our common face": Traces of the Subject, Subject as Trace; IV. OTHER FORMS OF IMITATION/ TRACING: DANCE, MIME, ORNAMENT; "Only in dance do I know how to speak the parables of the highest things": The Metaphor of Dance in the Modernist Tradition; Mime and Mimesis: Mime and Pantomime in Modern Literary Consciousness; The Language of Movement: Mime and Pantomime in the Conceptions of the Framers of the Great Theater Reform

Norwid, Mallarmé, Leśmian: Mime as the Representation of a RepresentationCreating Presence: Mime and the Phenomenon of Representation; The Metaphor of the Ornament in PhilosophicalDiscourse: From Kant to Vattimo

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 15, 2013).

ISBN:

3-653-03589-9