Future Crossings: Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Future Crossings uses a broad spectrum of philosophers and writers—Acker, Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze, Derrida, Joyce, Levinas, Nancy, Wordsworth, and many others—to consider whether the future of literary studies depends on an understanding of aesthetics both as an outcome of its cultural context and the questioning of that very context.
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Future Crossings: Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies
Future Crossings uses a broad spectrum of philosophers and writers—Acker, Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze, Derrida, Joyce, Levinas, Nancy, Wordsworth, and many others—to consider whether the future of literary studies depends on an understanding of aesthetics both as an outcome of its cultural context and the questioning of that very context.
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Future Crossings: Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies

Future Crossings: Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies

Future Crossings: Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies

Future Crossings: Literature Between Philosophy and Cultural Studies

Overview

Future Crossings uses a broad spectrum of philosophers and writers—Acker, Adorno, Blanchot, Deleuze, Derrida, Joyce, Levinas, Nancy, Wordsworth, and many others—to consider whether the future of literary studies depends on an understanding of aesthetics both as an outcome of its cultural context and the questioning of that very context.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780810117921
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 11/27/2000
Series: Philosophy, Literature And Culture
Edition description: 1
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

KRZYSZTOF ZIAREK is an associate professor of English at the University of Notre Dame and the author of Inflected Language: Toward a Hermeneutics of Nearness: Heidegger, Levinas, Stevens, Celan.

SEAMUS DEANE is the Keough Professor of Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. His most recent works are a novel, Reading in the Dark, and Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790 and A Short History of Irish Literature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Krzysztof Ziarek and Seamus Deane

Part I. Remembering the Future

Thinking the New: Of Futures Yet Unthought
Elizabeth Grosz

Between Act and Archive: Literature in the Nuclear Age
Joseph Kronick

Remembering Women's Studies
Alice Gambrell

The Dissolute Feminisms of Kathy Acker
Marilyn Manners

Part II. Deconstruction and Culture: Community, Politics, Ethics

Feeling the Debt: On Europe
Rodolphe Gasché

The Politics of Différance: Tel Quel and Deconstruction
Joan Brandt

Ethical Figures of Otherness: Jean-Luc Nancy's Sublime Offering and Emmanuel Levinas's Gift to the Other
Dorota Glowacka

Part III. Modernity, Nationalism, and Cultural Difference

Counterparts: Dubliners, Masculinity, and Temperance Nationalism
David Lloyd

Lacan with Adorno? The Question of Fascist Rationalism
Gilbert Chaitin

Of National Poets and Their Female Companions
Herman Rapaport

Postmodern investments: Lyotard and Rorty on Disenchantment and Cultural Difference
Andreas Michel

Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
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