| Description |
xxi, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Religion and postmodernism |
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Religion and postmodernism.
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| Contents |
1. Re-signing History, De-signing Ethics. The Historian's Promise. Historical Truth and the End of Representation. The Necessity of Naming. That Which Cannot Be Named: The Cataclysm. Historical Narrative. History as Science: L'Esprit de Geometrie et L'Esprit de Finesse. Factuality Revisited: Lies, Fiction, Ficciones. Ficciones and History: Foucault -- 2. Reading the Heterological Historian Reading Kant. The Nihil and Analogy. Heteronomy's Rule. The Ends of History. The Aesthetic and the Cataclysm -- 3. The Historical Object and the Mark of the Grapheme: Images, Simulacra, and Virtual Reality. Runaway Images. The Historian and the Camera: Still Photography. The Co-optation of the Look. History as Archive of the Moving Image. The French Revolution in Narrative and Film. Images and Information -- 4. Wired in the Absolute: Hegel and the Being of Appearance. The Specular Absolute and Release from the Object. Plenum and Void. Terror and Cataclysm |
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5. Re-membering the Past: The Historian as Time Traveler. Voyages in Time. Time's Duality: From Hegel to Nietzsche and Back. McTaggart's Paradox: Tensed and Tenseless Time. The Speech and Silence of Heterology -- 6. Re-membering the Past. The Tablet and the Aviary. "That This Too Too Solid Flesh Would Melt" From "Trace" to Shining Trace. Flickering Memories: Images and Signs. La Cage aux Folles: From Tablet to Aviary and Back. The Mind Is a Bone: Skull, Brains, and Memory. Matter Matters: Brain States and Mental Acts. Differance Is in the Neurons. Ownerless Memories: Artificial Life and Biological Computers -- 7. The Gift of Community. Unsaying Rational Community: Autochthony and Desire. Humanity's Essence Is Production. Exteriority and Community. The Gift of the Future. The Gift of Hope |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-272) and index |
| Subject |
Difference (Psychology) -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Historiography -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| LC no. |
97041458 |
| ISBN |
0226920445 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0226920453 (paperback: alk. paper) |
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