| Description |
1 online resource (x, 247 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
SUNY series, the margins of literature
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SUNY series, the margins of literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. Paratactic prose of Samuel Beckett : How it is: 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Deconstruction.
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Deconstruction. |
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Postmodernism.
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Postmodernism. |
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Ethics, Modern -- 20th century.
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Ethics, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century.
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Aesthetics, Modern. |
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Skepticism.
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Skepticism. |
| Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ziarek, Ewa Płonowska, 1961- Rhetoric of failure. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©1996 0791427110 (DLC) 95001439 (OCoLC)31900137 |
| ISBN |
0585076553 (electronic book) |
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9780585076553 (electronic book) |
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0791427110 |
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0791427129 |
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