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The Unraveled Plot : Thinking Literature, Community, and Politics with Jean-Luc Nancy.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rooden, Aukje van.
- Series:
- SUNY Series in Contemporary French Thought Series
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (312 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Explores the connection between Jean-Luc Nancy's political works on community and his works on art and literature, thus providing not only a comprehensive introduction into Nancy's work but also a broader examination of the social and political role of literature.What is the connection between the work of community and the work of literature?.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Abbreviations of Works by Jean-Luc Nancy
- Introduction: Literature, Community, and Politics
- Unraveling the Mythological
- Outline
- Chapter 1 The Romantic Heritage
- German Romanticism
- Romanticism as the Birthplace of Modernity
- The Oldest Systematic Program
- The Last Work
- The Romantic Notion of Work
- Another Model of the Work
- Fragmentary Writing
- From Ergon to Organicity
- The Romantic Work as a Model Without Model
- From Product to Production
- The Art of Combining and Relating
- In Medias Res
- Romantic Politics
- Poetry as a Democratic Model
- From Utopianism to a New Form of Realism
- A System Without a System
- The Reverse Side of Romanticism (Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe)
- Nancy's Warning
- The Unsurpassable Horizon of Romanticism
- A Way Out: Energeia
- The Future Is Fragmentary
- Rupture of the Romantic Horizon
- Exit
- Chapter 2 The Work of Community
- Myth Interrupted (Nancy, Aristotle, Balzac)
- The Western Plot
- From the Mythological to the Mythical
- The Myth of Politics
- Myth Without Mythology
- A Tautegorical Saying of the World by Itself
- Sense Without Return
- From Writing to Being
- Rethinking Communism
- Staging a "We"
- The Failure of Communism
- The Lesson of Communism
- Rethinking Democracy (Nancy, Heidegger)
- The Truth of Democracy
- From Politics to Ontology
- The Impetus of the "With" (Nancy, Heidegger)
- Sharing Community in and as Literature (Nancy, Blanchot)
- Communicating Community
- Community as Unworked Work
- On (Not) Avowing Community
- The Fable Becoming the Real World (Nancy, Nietzsche, Lyotard)
- Fiction Beyond the "As If"
- Reasserting the Power of Myth
- Chapter 3 An Ontological Poetics
- Nancy's Poetics
- Nancy as Literary Theorist
- Towards a New Poetics
- Rethinking Art (Nancy, Hegel)
- Art Beyond Representation.
- Presentation as Poetic Exposition
- Exposition as Being's Portrait
- A Poetics of Everydayness (Nancy, Heidegger)
- Unexceptional Poetry
- Poetry's Multivocality
- Painting Dates
- Singular Plural Poetics
- Beyond Romantic Fragmentation
- From Genres to Touches
- A Poem Like a Burst of Laughter
- Poetic Language
- Language as Opening
- Touching Language
- The Right Touch of the Poem
- Language Beyond Language (Nancy, Derrida)
- Reading Beyond Communication
- From Text to Voice
- What Remains of Literature
- Chapter 4 Literature's Unworked Force
- The Scope and Limit of Nancy's Poetics
- Situating Nancy's Poetics
- The Scope of Nancy's Poetics
- The Limit of Nancy's Poetics
- The Distinctive Force of Literature (Nancy, Rancière)
- Is Literature Exceptional?
- The Power to Distinguish
- The Importance of Attestation
- A Certain Way of Speaking
- Taking Responsibility by a Certain Way of Speaking
- The Role of Deception
- A Non-Political Intervention of Politics (Nancy, Benjamin)
- The Exigency of "Lying" (Nancy, Arendt, Derrida)
- The Traditional Lie
- The Absolute Lie of Modern Politics
- Two Modes of Performativity
- Literature as Unworked Performative
- Performing Powerlessness
- In the Interstices of Politics
- The "Non-Serious" Performative of Fiction (Nancy, Austin, Derrida)
- The Language of Fiction (Nancy, Blanchot)
- Giving and Taking
- Literature and Ontology, Revisited
- The Performance of Fictionality
- Being Responsible for Literature
- The Meta-Performative "This Is Literature"
- Fictionalizing Being (Nancy, Belhaj Kacem)
- Putting Faith in Fiction
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Works by Jean-Luc Nancy
- Other Works
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-558-0395-2
- OCLC:
- 1537623806
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