Möbian Nights
Bloomsbury Academic USA (Verlag)
978-1-5013-5081-8 (ISBN)
Challenging customary “aesthetic” assumptions that we write in order not to die, Sandor Goodhart suggests (with Kafka) we write to die. Drawing upon analyses developed by Girard, Foucault, Blanchot, and Levinas (along with examples from Homer to Beckett), Möbian Nights proposes that all literature works “autobiographically”, which is to say, in the wake of disaster; with the credo “I died; therefore, I am”; and for which the language of topology (for example, the “Möbius strip”) offers a vocabulary for naming the “deep structure” of such literary, critical, and scriptural sacrificial and anti-sacrificial dynamics.
Sandor Goodhart is Professor of English and Jewish Studies at Purdue University, USA. He is the author of editor of five books, including The Prophetic Law. Essays in Judaism, Girardianism, Literary Studies, and the Ethical (2014), Sacrifice, Scripture, and Substitution: Readings in Ancient Judaism and Christianity (co-edited with Ann Astell, 2011) and For René Girard. Essays in Friendship and Truth (co-edited with Jørgen Jørgenson, Tom Ryba, and James G. Williams, 2009).
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction: Möbian Turns: Difference as Continuity
1. After The Tragic Vision: Krieger and Criticism, Lentricchia and Crisis
2. Disfiguring de Man: Literature, History, and Collaboration
3. Witnessing the Impossible: Laub, Felman, and the Trauma of Testimony
4. Documenting Fiction: Kolitz, van Beeck, Levinas, and Holocaust Witness
5. “And Darkness Upon the Face of the Deep”: Counter-Redemptive Hermeneutics in Wiesel, Mauriac, Cayrol, Blanchot, Levinas, and Genesis 1
6. Criticism, Literature, and the Möbian
7. Literarary Reading, the Möbian, and the Posthumous
Conclusion: Versions of Night: Reading Literature and Darkness
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.02.2019 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Violence, Desire, and the Sacred |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 467 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5013-5081-1 / 1501350811 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5013-5081-8 / 9781501350818 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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