Anthony J. Cascardi's Books

Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics convincingly re-engages the ancient roots of political theory in modern literature by situating Cervantes within a long line of political thinkers.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

369

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1442612231

ISBN 13

9781442612235

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Literature and philosophy have long shared an interest in questions of truth, value, and form. And yet, from ancient times to the present, they have often sharply diverged, both in their approach to these questions and in their relationship to one another. Moreover, the vast differences among individual writers, historical periods, and languages pose challenges for anyone wishing to understand the relationship between them. This Introduction provides a synthetic and original guide to this vast terrain. It uncovers the deep interests that literature and philosophy share while offering a lucid account of their differences. It sheds new light on many standing debates and offers students and scholars of literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy a chance to think freshly about questions that have preoccupied the Western tradition from its very beginnings up until the present.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

233

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107729041

ISBN 13

9781107729049

The Subject of Modernity

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Subject of Modernity

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

The question of modernity has provoked a vigorous debate in the work of thinkers from Hegel to Habermas. Anthony J. Cascardi offers an historical account of the origins and transformations of the rational subject of self as it is represented in Descartes, Cervantes, Pascal, Hobbes and the Don Juan myth.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

332

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521423783

ISBN 13

9780521423786

The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

This is the first thorough study of Calderón in comparison with other important dramatists of the period: Lope de Vega and Tirso de Molina in Spain, Racine and Corneille in France, and Shakespeare and Marlowe in England. Cascardi studies Calderón's paradoxical engagement with illusion in its philosophical guise as scepticism. He shows on the one hand Calderón's moral will to reject illusion and on the other his theatrical need to embrace it. Cascardi discusses plays from every period to show how in Calderón's best work illusion is not rejected; instead, scepticism is absorbed. Calderón is placed in and defined against the philosophical line of Vives, Descartes, and Spinoza. Of central importance to this argument is Calderón's idea of theatre and the various transformations of that idea. This emphasis will give the book an additional interest to students, readers in philosophy and comparative literature.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

201

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

052126281X

ISBN 13

9780521262811

Consequences of Enlightenment

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Consequences of Enlightenment

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

What is the relationship between contemporary intellectual culture and the European Enlightenment it claims to reject? In Consequences of Enlightenment, Anthony Cascardi revisits the arguments advanced in Horkheimer and Adorno's seminal work Dialectic of Enlightenment. Cascardi argues against the view that postmodern culture has rejected Enlightenment beliefs and explores instead the continuities contemporary theory shares with Kant's failed ambition to bring the project of Enlightenment to completion. He explores the link between aesthetics and politics in thinkers as diverse as Habermas, Derrida, Arendt, Nietzsche, Hegel, and Wittgenstein in order to reverse the tendency to see works of art simply in terms of the worldly practices among which they are situated.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

280

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521484901

ISBN 13

9780521484909

Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Spain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was in the throes of modernization arising from trade with the New World and the rise of an urban society. During this period, Spanish culture came to be dominated by the tension between an old regime of traditional values&—honor, lineage, purity of blood&—and these modernizing influences. Anthony J. Cascardi examines the literature of the Golden Age as the point at which tensions between the old and the new converged and proposes that this historical drama provided the context for subject-formation in early modern Spain. He examines how Spanish writers envisioned history and studies how these visions revealed or concealed contradictions between social values of their time, particularly between the value systems of caste and class. Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age draws on recent theoretical paradigms in contemporary philosophy, psychoanalysis, political and social theory, and literary history to place Spain's major literary figures in challenging new contexts. By accounting for both modernizing desires and resistances to modernization, Cascardi provides readers interested in theories of ideology and history with a new way of looking at the literature of the Spanish Golden Age.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

340

Publisher

Penn State Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0271025697

ISBN 13

9780271025698

Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

What is the role of literature in the formation of the state? Anthony J. Cascardi takes up this fundamental question in Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics, a comprehensive analysis of the presence of politics in Don Quixote. Cascardi argues that when public speech is constrained, as it was in seventeenth-century Spain, politics must be addressed through indirect forms including comedy, myth, and travellers' tales. Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics convincingly re-engages the ancient roots of political theory in modern literature by situating Cervantes within a long line of political thinkers. Cascardi notably connects Cervantes's political theory to Plato's, much as the writer's literary criticism has been firmly linked to Aristotle's. He also shows how Cervantes's view of literature provided a compelling alternative to the modern, scientific politics of Machiavelli and Hobbes, highlighting the potential interplay of literature and politics in an ideal state.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

369

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1442643714

ISBN 13

9781442643710

Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

An innovative study of Goya's unprecedented elaboration of the critical function of the work of art Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique probes the relationship between the enormous, extraordinary, and sometimes baffling body of Goya’s work and the interconnected issues of modernity, Enlightenment, and critique. Taking exception to conventional views that rely mainly on Goya’s darkest images to establish his relevance for modernity, Cascardi argues that the entirety of Goya’s work is engaged in a thoroughgoing critique of the modern social and historical worlds, of which it nonetheless remains an integral part. The book reckons with the apparent gulf assumed to divide the Disasters of War and the so-called Black Paintings from Goya’s scenes of bourgeois life or from the well-mannered portraits of aristocrats, military men, and intellectuals. It shows how these apparent contradictions offer us a gateway into Goya’s critical practice vis-à-vis a European modernity typically associated with the Enlightenment values dominant in France, England, and Germany. In demonstrating Goya’s commitment to the project of critique, Cascardi provides an alternative to established readings of Goya’s work, which generally acknowledge the explicit social criticism evident in works such as the Caprichos but which have little to say about those works that do not openly take up social or political themes. In Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique, Cascardi shows how Goya was consistently engaged in a critical response to—and not just a representation of—the many different factors that are often invoked to explain his work, including history, politics, popular culture, religion, and the history of art itself.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

290

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1942130708

ISBN 13

9781942130703

Nietzsche's Negative Ecologies

By: Malcolm Bull,Anthony J. Cascardi,Timothy J. Clark

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Nietzsche's Negative Ecologies

By: Malcolm Bull,Anthony J. Cascardi,Timothy J. Clark

Malcolm Bull offers a detailed analysis of nihilism in Nietzsche's works. Along with accompanying commentaries by Cascardi and Clark, he explores the significance of Nietzscheís views given the fact that a wide range of readers have come to embrace his ideas as new orthodoxy. There seem to be no anti-Nietzscheans today, but Bull demonstrates that this wide embrace of Nietzsche runs counter to the very meaning of nihilism as Nietzsche understood it.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

Publisher

Univ of California Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0982329407

ISBN 13

9780982329405

Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

340

Publisher

Penn State Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0271025697

ISBN 13

9780271025698

The Subject of Modernity

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Subject of Modernity

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

332

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

0521423783

ISBN 13

9780521423786

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

Write a review Read reviews Take a Quiz Solve Book Puzzle

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy

By: Anthony J. Cascardi

This Introduction provides an original, synthetic overview of the relations between literature and philosophy from ancient times to the present. The book covers a wide range of genres, historical periods, and topics, making it a valuable introduction and guide for students, teachers, and researchers in literary criticism, literary theory, and philosophy.

Average ratings

N/A

Write a review

Solve jigsaw puzzle

Age

Page Count

233

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Published Date

ISBN 10

1107010543

ISBN 13

9781107010543

Book's by Anthony J. Cascardi

Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics

Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy

The Subject of Modernity

The Subject of Modernity

The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón

The Limits of Illusion: A Critical Study of Calderón

Consequences of Enlightenment

Consequences of Enlightenment

Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age

Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age

Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics

Cervantes, Literature, and the Discourse of Politics

Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique

Francisco de Goya and the Art of Critique

Nietzsche's Negative Ecologies

Nietzsche's Negative Ecologies

Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age

Ideologies of History in the Spanish Golden Age

The Subject of Modernity

The Subject of Modernity

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Philosophy

Username

Password

Username

Password

Password again

Birthday

Email