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Author : Kathryn Mary Hamilton
Release : 2011
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Book Synopsis Genet and the Ethics of Betrayal by : Kathryn Mary Hamilton
Download or read book Genet and the Ethics of Betrayal written by Kathryn Mary Hamilton. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Rooney
Release : 2013-11-07
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism by : Caroline Rooney
Download or read book The Ethics of Representation in Literature, Art, and Journalism written by Caroline Rooney. This book was released on 2013-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This transnational collection of essays, interviews, and creative pieces on the 1982 Siege of Beirut explores literary representations of the siege by a diverse set of writers alongside journalism and other media including film and art. The book investigates and promotes an awareness of an ethics of representation on questions of extreme emotional investment, comparing representations of the siege to representations of other traumatic events, visiting responses from those of different cultural backgrounds to the same event and considering implications with respect to comparative approaches. Chapters explore how literature, journalism and art contribute to overcoming the dangers of forgetting and denial, memorial excess and fundamentalism, the radicalization of violence, and the complete breakdown of trust on international levels, asking how they challenge geopolitical, intellectual, and psychological states of siege and instead promote awareness, acknowledgement, mourning, and justice across divided communities. The book extends the use of postcolonial methodologies affiliated with history, international relations, and psychoanalysis (memory, trauma) to Middle-Eastern studies, and visits the siege’s effect on different forms of memory and memorialization: selective memory, trauma, gaps and fissures in historical accounts, recording of eyewitness reports, and artistic re-imaginings and realizations of alternative archives.
Author : Simon Critchley
Release : 2020-05-05
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity by : Simon Critchley
Download or read book Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity written by Simon Critchley. This book was released on 2020-05-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Ethics-Politics-Subjectivity, Simon Critchley takes up three questions at the centre of contemporary theoretical debate: What is ethical experience? What can be said of the subject who has this experience? What, if any, is the relation of ethical experience to politics? Through spirited confrontations with major thinkers, such as Lacan, Nancy, Rorty, and, in particular, Levinas and Derrida, Critchley finds answers in a nuanced "ethics of finitude" and defends the political possibilities of deconstruction. Democracy, economics, friendship, and technology are all considered anew in Critchley's bold excursions on the meaning and value of recent French philosophy.
Author : Mikko Tuhkanen
Release : 2018-04-25
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis The Essentialist Villain by : Mikko Tuhkanen
Download or read book The Essentialist Villain written by Mikko Tuhkanen. This book was released on 2018-04-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since his first publications in the late 1950s, Leo Bersani's work has influenced numerous scholarly fields, from studies of French modernism and realist fiction to psychoanalytic criticism and film theory. It has occasionally helped precipitate the emergence of new disciplinary fields, such as queer theory in the late 1980s. The Essentialist Villain is the first book-length study of this impressively rich oeuvre. Mikko Tuhkanen tracks the unfolding of Bersani's onto-ethics/aesthetics, paying particular attention to his persistent references to "essence," a concept central to classical speculative philosophy, which has fallen into distinct disfavor since the emergence of deconstructive thought. Because of his early influences—particularly Gilles Deleuze's philosophy—Bersani remains an ontologist through decades when deconstruction seems to have all but disallowed any thought of being. Tuhkanen also locates Bersani's thought amidst numerous literary, artistic, and philosophical interlocutors, including Deleuze, Freud, Proust, Laplanche, Beckett, Baudelaire, Genet, Leibniz, and others.
Author : James Penney
Release : 2012-04-28
Genre : Psychology
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Book Synopsis The Structures of Love by : James Penney
Download or read book The Structures of Love written by James Penney. This book was released on 2012-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both Freud and Lacan defined the transference as the ego's last stand—its final desperate attempt to keep the truth of the unconscious at bay. Both also viewed the transference as a social phenomenon. In The Structures of Love James Penney argues that transference is the concept with which psychoanalysis thinks through the unconscious demands that circumscribe and can sabotage our creative initiatives in the arts and politics. Penney suggests a method of cultural analysis that enables us to identity the transformative potential of genuine artistic and political acts. He stages a dialogue between Lacan's psychoanalysis and the philosophy of Alain Badiou; includes chapters on Frantz Fanon and Jean Genet, Chantal Akerman and Lucien Freud; and explores the aesthetic, political, and ethical consequences of the transference idea, pushing it into exciting new territory.
