Disastrous Subjectivities
Romaniticism, Modernity, and the Real
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2019
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
978-1-4875-0614-8 (ISBN)
University of Toronto Press (Verlag)
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Drawing on the theories of Kant and Lacan, this book reveals how modernity's characteristic stance produces an infinitely demanding ethics and a traumatic sublime.
In sharply original readings of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Disastrous Subjectivities explores modernity’s failed promise to bring about a just social order under the ongoing threat of climate change.
Drawing on Kantian critical philosophy and Lacanian theory, this book traverses aspects of the history of science, the form of the novel, the limits of historicism, and the impasses of moral autonomy. What passes for modernity takes shape not as truly modern or secular, but instead as a mode perpetually haunted by a traumatic sublime. The demand to realize justice within history turns out to require more than history can make possible, and more than the subject can bear.
In sharply original readings of Mary Wollstonecraft, William Godwin, William Wordsworth, Lord Byron, and Percy Bysshe Shelley, Disastrous Subjectivities explores modernity’s failed promise to bring about a just social order under the ongoing threat of climate change.
Drawing on Kantian critical philosophy and Lacanian theory, this book traverses aspects of the history of science, the form of the novel, the limits of historicism, and the impasses of moral autonomy. What passes for modernity takes shape not as truly modern or secular, but instead as a mode perpetually haunted by a traumatic sublime. The demand to realize justice within history turns out to require more than history can make possible, and more than the subject can bear.
David Collings is a professor of English at Bowdoin College.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Catastrophic Benevolence, Ruinous Immortality: Wollstonecraft’s Shipwreck
2. Prohibiting the Impossible: Godwin and the Formation of the Real
3. After the Covenant: Undead Subjectivity in Wordsworth’s Alpine Sublime
4. Trusting to the Billows: Byron’s Poetics of the Real
5. Tarrying with Disaster: Ethical Destitution in Shelley’s "The Triumph of Life"
Coda: Melting the Sublime: Disastrous Objectivity in the Era of Climate Change
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheinungsdatum | 24.11.2019 |
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Verlagsort | Toronto |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 165 x 236 mm |
Gewicht | 500 g |
Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4875-0614-7 / 1487506147 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4875-0614-8 / 9781487506148 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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