Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx : ontology, hauntology, and heterologies of the grotesque

Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx : ontology, hauntology, and heterologies of the grotesque / Yuan Yuan.

The Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque probes the polemic status of the other and the dubious nature of the subject from a heterodox perspective of an emblematic grotesque figure, the Sphinx-the mystical trickster and the guardian of sacr...

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Main Author: Yuan, Yuan (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : University Press of America, Inc., [2016]
Subjects:
Grotesque.
PHILOSOPHY > Metaphysics.
Grotesque
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: the return of the grotesque
  • Notes. 1 The primal scenes revisited: archeology and genealogy of the grotesque : 1 the uncanny subject between aesthetics and metaphysics : The current critical scenes: figuration of the grotesque
  • Archeology of the grotesque: dis-figuration at the primal scene
  • Genealogy of the grotesque: transfiguration in different aesthetic modes
  • Conclusion: aesthetics of art and metaphysics of being
  • Notes. 2 The mystical encounter between the Sphinx and Oedipus : The Sphinx: emblem of the grotesque and the problematic origin
  • The Sphinx at different locations: transfiguration of identities
  • The encounter: fall of the Sphinx and rise of Oedipus in the Oedipus legend
  • Shift and drift between Oedipus and the Sphinx in and beyond the legend
  • The ontological mystery between Oedipus and the Sphinx
  • The riddle between Oedipus and the Sphinx
  • Conclusion of part one: the uncanny subject of the grotesque. 2 Reconfiguring the grotesque between the Sphinx and Oedipus : 3 The enigmatic Sphinx: the grotesque other in aesthetic speculation : Hege's symbolic art: a metaphysical speculation of the grotesque
  • Nietzsche's Dionysus: mythical desires toward the grotesque
  • Freud's "the uncanny" and the grotesque: mother and the other
  • Notes. 4 Oedipus obsessed: grotesque desires and the phantom subject : Derrida's hauntology: the spectral and specular other
  • Solipsistic desire, negative signification, and the ghost subject in Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit
  • The ascetic ideal and nihilistic desire: the disembodied subject and bad conscience in Nietzsche's The Genealogy of Morals
  • Freud's Civilization and its Discontents and The Future of an Illusion: between Oedipal rites and narcissistic desire
  • Conclusion of part two: the modern subject
  • Notes. 3 The subject of the other(s) in ontology and heterologies : 5 Oracles and ghosts: the dubious other in Lacan's discourse of the subject : Repeating after Freud and the sacred words from the spectral other
  • The grotesque: surrealistic images, poststructualist ideas, and modern ethos
  • The specular other and the imaginary subject
  • The linguistic other and the symbolic subject
  • The dubious other(s) in the unconscious
  • No other of the other? The wholly or holy other without alterity or difference
  • Notes. 6 From ontology to heterologies: a postmodern perspective on otherness : The death of God and the postmodern turn toward the other
  • Bakhtin: carnivalizing the grotesque in folk culture
  • Kristeva: abjecting the grotesque and the other in process
  • Anzaldúa: hybridizing the grotesque: the new Mestiza in ethnographical borderlands
  • Notes. Afterword: the cyborg: a post-human return to the grotesque
  • Notes. Bibliography
  • Index.

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