Textual Layering (eBook)

Contact, Historicity, Critique

Christakis Chatzichristou, Apostolos Lampropoulos, Maria Margaroni (Herausgeber)

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2017
322 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
9781498501347 (ISBN)

Infos

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 position of the theoretical humanities within academia.

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Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of several contemporary developments, including the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as well as social life, the renegotiation of historical thinking, and the precarious position of the theoretical humanities within academia. To this end, the volume re-invests the concept of "e;layering,"e; a concept currently used in a wide range of fields, including metaphor studies and linguistics, cybernetics, the social sciences, art, and architecture. Drawing on existing definitions of "e;layering,"e; the chapters in this book return to and re-appraise some of the most crucial concerns in the post-1960s theoretical scene: that is, concerns over the strained interplay between writing and the body; textuality and history; critique, differance and the feminine; memory, trace, and the immemorial. The aim of the diverse-often polemical-analyses carried out in this volume is to reactivate the critical force of textual tradition today through a renewed appreciation of its historical embeddedness, its libidinal sources, as well as its complex economy of separation and contact, diachronicity and synchronicity, (re)layering and de-layering. This collection will be of interest to scholars of continental philosophy, literary theory, gender studies, architecture, film and visual culture studies, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, post-colonial studies, and political and social theory.

Autor

Christos Hadjichristos is associate professor of architecture at the University of Cyprus.Apostolos Lampropoulos is professor of comparative literary and cultural studies at the University Bordeaux Montaigne. Maria Margaroni is associate professor in literary theory and feminist thought at the University of Cyprus.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.2.2017
• Reihe/Serie: TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
• Co-Autor: Michael Beehler, Gertrude Postl, Frances Restuccia, Elena Tzelepis, Judith Wambacq, William Watkin, Tina Chanter, Marios Constantinou, S. K. Keltner, Apostolos Lampropoulos, John Lechte, Adnan Mahmutovic, Brendan Moran, Kalliopi Nikolopoulou
• Verlagsort: Lanham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
• Schlagworte: Agamben • Architecture • Bernard Stiegler • Continental Philosophy • Cultural Studies • Deleuze • Derrida • Gender Studies • Irigaray • Jean-Luc Marion • Judith Butler • Kant • Kristeva • Libeskind • Literary Studies • Literary Theory • Mark B. N. Hansen • Merleau-Ponty • Peter Greenaway • post-colonial studies • Postmodernism • Psychoanalysis • Salman Rushdie • Social Theory • Sophocles • Tocqueville • Walter Benjamin
• ISBN-13: 9781498501347 / 9781498501347