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Anarchaeologies : Reading as Misreading / Erin Graff Zivin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Graff Zivin, Erin, Author.
- Series:
- Lit Z
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Art and philosophy.
- Criticism.
- Reading--Philosophy.
- Reading.
- Albertina Carri.
- Argentinian literature.
- César Aira.
- Emmanuel Levinas.
- Jacques Derrida.
- Jorge Luis Borges.
- Latin American studies.
- Paul de Man.
- Ricardo Piglia.
- continental philosophy.
- deconstruction.
- ethics.
- politics.
- Local Subjects:
- Albertina Carri.
- Argentinian literature.
- César Aira.
- Emmanuel Levinas.
- Jacques Derrida.
- Jorge Luis Borges.
- Latin American studies.
- Paul de Man.
- Ricardo Piglia.
- continental philosophy.
- deconstruction.
- ethics.
- politics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 p.) : 12
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2020]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical, and political possibilities remain for us today? Our critical moment, Graff Zivin argues, demands anarchaeological reading: reading for the blind spots, errors, points of opacity or untranslatability in works of philosophy and art.Rather than applying concepts from philosophy in order to understand or elucidate cultural works, the book exposes works of philosophy, literary theory, narrative, poetry, film, and performance art and activism to one another. Working specifically with art, film, and literature from Argentina (Jorge Luis Borges, Juán José Saer, Ricardo Piglia, César Aira, Albertina Carri, the Internacional Errorista), Graff Zivin allows such thinkers as Levinas, Derrida, Badiou, and Rancière to be inflected by Latin American cultural production. Through these acts of interdiscursive and interdisciplinary (or indisciplinary) exposure, such ethical and political concepts as identification and recognition, decision and event, sovereignty and will, are read as constitutively impossible, erroneous. Rather than weakening either ethics or politics, however, the anarchaeological reading these works stage and demand opens up and radicalizes the possibility of justice.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: ethical and political thinking after literature
- Misunderstanding literature
- Toward an anarchaeological latinamericanism
- Ethics against politics
- Levinas in Latin America
- Abraham’s double bind
- Untimely ethics: deconstruction and its precursors
- The metapolitics of allegory
- The aesthetics and politics of error
- Toward a passive university
- Afterword: Truth and error in the age of trump
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)
- ISBN:
- 0-8232-8684-3
- OCLC:
- 1127275324
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