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The Rhetoric of Failure

Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism

By: Ewa P?onowska Ziarek

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The Rhetoric of Failure

Deconstruction of Skepticism, Reinvention of Modernism

By: Ewa P?onowska Ziarek

This book makes a significant and needed contribution to post-structural philosophy and literary theory. In this impressive analysis that delicately weaves together philosophical and literary texts, Ewa Ziarek powerfully and persuasively demonstrates that the rhetoric of the failure of traditional subject-centered rationality does not lead to nihilism or nominalism.'-Kelly Oliver, University of Texas at Austin

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SUNY Press

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0791427110

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9780791427118

A Time for the Humanities

Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy

By: Tim Dean,Ewa Plonowska Ziarek

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A Time for the Humanities

Futurity and the Limits of Autonomy

By: Tim Dean,Ewa Plonowska Ziarek

This book brings together an international roster of renowned scholars from disciplines including philosophy, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies to address the conceptual foundations of the humanities and the question of their future. What notions of the future, of the human, and of finitude underlie recurring anxieties about the humanities in our current geopolitical situation? How can we think about the unpredictable and unthought dimensions of praxis implicit in the very notion of futurity? The essays here argue that the uncertainty of the future represents both an opportunity for critical engagement and a matrix for invention. Broadly conceived, the notion of invention, or cultural poiesis, questions the key assumptions and tasks of a whole range of practices in the humanities, beginning with critique, artistic practices, and intellectual inquiry, and ending with technology, emancipatory politics, and ethics. The essays discuss a wide range of key figures (e.g., Deleuze, Freud, Lacan, Foucault, Kristeva, Irigaray), problems (e.g., becoming, kinship and the foreign, "disposable populations" within a global political economy, queerness and the death drive, the parapoetic, electronic textuality, invention and accountability, political and social reform in Latin America), disciplines and methodologies (philosophy, art and art history, visuality, political theory, criticism and critique, psychoanalysis, gender analysis, architecture, literature, art). The volume should be required reading for all who feel a deep commitment to the humanities, its practices, and its future.

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439

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823229211

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9780823229215

Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism

By: Ewa Płonowska Ziarek

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Feminist Aesthetics and the Politics of Modernism

By: Ewa Płonowska Ziarek

Ewa Ziarek fully articulates a feminist aesthetics, focusing on the struggle for freedom in women's literary and political modernism and the devastating impact of racist violence and sexism. She examines the contradiction between women's transformative literary and political practices and the oppressive realities of racist violence and sexism, and she situates these tensions within the entrenched opposition between revolt and melancholia in studies of modernity and within the friction between material injuries and experimental aesthetic forms. Ziarek's political and aesthetic investigations concern the exclusion and destruction of women in politics and literary production and the transformation of this oppression into the inaugural possibilities of writing and action. Her study is one of the first to combine an in-depth engagement with philosophical aesthetics, especially the work of Theodor W. Adorno, with women's literary modernism, particularly the writing of Virginia Woolf and Nella Larsen, along with feminist theories on the politics of race and gender. By bringing seemingly apolitical, gender-neutral debates about modernism's experimental forms together with an analysis of violence and destroyed materialities, Ziarek challenges both the anti-aesthetic subordination of modern literature to its political uses and the appreciation of art's emancipatory potential at the expense of feminist and anti-racist political struggles.

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284

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Columbia University Press

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0231161492

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9780231161497

Arendt, Natality and Biopolitics

Toward Democratic Plurality and Reproductive Justice

By: Rosalyn Diprose

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Arendt, Natality and Biopolitics

Toward Democratic Plurality and Reproductive Justice

By: Rosalyn Diprose

A literary, historical and philosophical discussion of attitudes to blindness by the sighted, and what the blind 'see

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384

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474444369

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9781474444361

An Ethics of Dissensus

Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy

By: Ewa P?onowska Ziarek

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An Ethics of Dissensus

Postmodernity, Feminism, and the Politics of Radical Democracy

By: Ewa P?onowska Ziarek

Addressing a constellation of diverse thinkers—including Emmanuel Levinas, Patricia Williams, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Michel Foucault, Frantz Fanon, Julia Kristeva, and Luce Irigaray—the author proposes a new conception of ethics, an ethics of dissensus that rethinks the relation between freedom and obligation in a double context of embodiment and antagonism. The author employs discourses that have hitherto been segregated: postmodern ethics, feminism, race theory, and the idea of radical democracy.

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