Textual layering : contact, historicity, critique / edited by Maria Margaroni, Apostolos Lampropoulos, and Christos Chatzichristou.

Employing the concept of "layering," this book seeks to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as well as social life, the renegotiation of historical thinking and the precarious pos...

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Other Authors: Margaroni, Maria (Editor), Lampropoulos, Apostolos, 1972- (Editor), Chatzichristou, Christakis (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
Series:Textures: philosophy / literature / culture
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Table of Contents:
  • Textual Layering; Contents; Abbreviations; Acknowledgments; General Introduction; Textual Tradition, Body-Layering, and Nagiko' s Seductions; PART ONE: Thinking with/Thinking between; Introduction; 1. Profane Mystical Practice: Resisting the Society of the Spectacle or the Society of the ""As If'; 2. Thinking the Image, Technics, and Embodiment: Julia Kristeva's Challenge; 3. The Layered Being of Merleau-Ponty and the Being Layered of Deleuze: A Comparison of Two Conceptions of Immanentism on the Basis of the Notion ""Fold""
  • 4. The / Turn and the "" "" Pause: Agamben, Derrida, and the Stratification of PoetryPART TWO: Displaced Pasts, Emerging Topographies; Introduction; 5. Layering and Extending: Architecture's Traumatic Work of Mourning; 6. The ""Forgotten"" as Epic Vorwelt; 7. Halal History and Existential Meaning in Salman Rushdie's Early Fiction; 8. Tactical Reason: Philosophy and the Colonial Question; PART THREE: De-Layerings of the Feminine; Introduction; 9. Kristeva's Revolt, Illusion, and the Feminine
  • 10. The Layering of Abjection in Relation to Fetish: Reading Kristevan Abjection as the Unthought Ground of Fetishism11. Reviving Oedipus: Oedipus, Anti-Oedipus, and the Nomadic Body in Kristeva; 12. Tragedy as De-Layering: The Opaque Immediacy of Antigone; 13. Metaphysical Topographies Re-Layered: Critique and the Feminine; Epilogue; Layering Is Not; Notes; Bibliography; Contributors; Volume Editors; Index of Names; Index of Topics