| Description |
1 online resource (x, 247 pages) |
| Series |
SUNY series, the margins of literature |
|
SUNY series, the margins of literature
|
| Contents |
1. Introduction : Deconstruction of skepticism, reinvention of modernism -- 2. Stanley Cavell and the economy of skepticism: Cavell reading Wittgenstein : linguistic games and the threat of skepticism ; Revision of skepticism : acknowledgment, community and the aesthetics of ordinary speech ; Moments of excess : alterity, metaphor, modernism -- 3. Rhetoric of failure and deconstruction: Unmasking deconstruction :skepticism in disguise? ; Levinas and Derrida : skepticism and the signification of alterity ; Community and communication ; "Hear say yes" : rhetoric, skepticism, modernism -- 4. "The beauty of failure" : Kafka and Benjamin on the task of transmission and translation: "On parables" : exemplarity, transmissibility, figuration ; "The pit of Babel" : translation as the limit of formalism and of linguistic community ; "The ground under our feet" : "The great wall of China" -- 5. The paratactic prose of Samuel Beckett : How it is: The remains of aesthetics : failure, task, obligation ; Impossible invention : aesthetics and the signification of alterity ; Inventions of the possible : Beckett's couples and nightmare of communicative reason ; "The inevitable number" : calculation, community and the divine -- 6. Witold Gombrowicz : forms of life as disfigurement: Rethinking the parameters of modern aesthetics : form, "immaturity," "the interhuman" ; Between philosophy and art : the double articulation of form in Cosmos |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Deconstruction.
|
|
Postmodernism.
|
|
Ethics, Modern -- 20th century.
|
|
Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.
|
|
Skepticism.
|
|
Ethics, Modern.
|
|
Aesthetics, Modern.
|
|
Deconstructivism (Architecture)
|
|
Deconstructivist.
|
|
deconstruction (theory)
|
|
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Deconstruction.
|
|
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General.
|
|
Aesthetics, Modern
|
|
Deconstruction
|
|
Ethics, Modern
|
|
Postmodernism
|
|
Skepticism
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
0585076553 |
|
9780585076553 |
|
