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The Pathos of Distance

Affects of the Moderns

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

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The Pathos of Distance

Affects of the Moderns

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

Jean-Michel Rabaté uses Nietzsche's image of a “pathos of distance,” the notion that values are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a wide-ranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns. Revealing overlooked connections between Nietzsche's and Benjamin's ideas of history and ethics, Rabaté provides an original genealogy for modernist thought, moving through figures and moments as varied as Yeats and the birth of Irish Modernism, the ethics of courage in Virginia Woolf, Rilke, Apollinaire, and others in 1910, T. S. Eliot's post-war despair, Jean Cocteau's formidable selfmythology in his first film The Blood of a Poet, Siri Hustvedt's novel of American trauma, and J. M. Coetzee's dystopia portraying an affectless future haunted by a messianic promise.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501307983

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9781501307980

1913

The Cradle of Modernism

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

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The Cradle of Modernism

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

This innovative book puts modernist literature in its cultural, intellectual, and global context, within the framework of the year 1913. Broadens the analysis of canonical texts and artistic events by showing their cultural and global parallels Examines a number of simultaneous artistic, literary, and political endeavours including those of Yeats, Pound, Joyce, Du Bois and Stravinsky Explores Pound's Personae next to Apollinaire's Alcools and Rilke's Spanish Trilogy, Edith Wharton's The Custom of the Country next to Proust's Swann's Way

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470691476

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9780470691472

Rust

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

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Rust

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. It's happening all the time, all around us. We cover it up. We ignore it. Rust takes on the many meanings of this oxidized substance, showing how technology bleeds into biology and ecology. Jean-Michel Rabate ́ combines art, science, and autobiography to share his fascination with peeling paints and rusty metal sheets. Rust, he concludes, is a place where things living, built, and remembered commingle. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1501329510

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The Future of Theory

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

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The Future of Theory

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

In this controversial manifesto, Jean-Michel Rabaté addresses current anxieties about the future of literary and cultural theory and proposes that it still has a crucial role to play.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0631230130

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9780631230137

Crimes of the Future

Theory and its Global Reproduction

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

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Crimes of the Future

Theory and its Global Reproduction

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

The decade since the publication of Jean-Michel Rabaté's controversial manifesto The Future of Theory saw important changes in the field. The demise of most of the visible French or German philosophers, who had produced texts that would trigger new debates, then to be processed by Theory, has led to drastic revisions and starker assessments. Globalization has been the most obvious factor to modify the selection of texts studied. During the twentieth century, Theory incorporated poetics, rhetorics, aesthetics and linguistics, while also opening itself to continental philosophy. What has changed today? The knowledge that we live in a de-centered world has destabilized the primacy granted to a purely Western canon. Moreover, much of contemporary theory remains highly allusive and this is often baffling for students. Theory keeps recycling itself, producing authentic returns of basic theses, terms and concepts. Canonical modern theorists often return to classical texts, as those of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche. And now we want to know: what is new? Crimes of the Future explores the past, present and potential future of Theory.

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1441155635

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9781441155634

The Future of Theory

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

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In this controversial manifesto, Jean-Michel Rabaté addresses current anxieties about the future of literary and cultural theory and proposes that it still has a crucial role to play.

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Wiley-Blackwell

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0631230122

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9780631230120

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

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The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

Taking Sigmund Freud's theories as a point of departure, Jean-Michel Rabaté's book explores the intriguing ties between psychoanalysis and literature.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107027586

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9781107027589

Think, Pig!

Beckett at the Limit of the Human

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

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Beckett at the Limit of the Human

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

This book examines Samuel Beckett’s unique lesson in courage in the wake of humanism’s postwar crisis—the courage to go on living even after experiencing life as a series of catastrophes. Rabaté, a former president of the Samuel Beckett Society and a leading scholar of modernism, explores the whole range of Beckett’s plays, novels, and essays. He places Beckett in a vital philosophical conversation that runs from Bataille to Adorno, from Kant and Sade to Badiou. At the same time, he stresses Beckett’s inimitable sense of metaphysical comedy. Foregrounding Beckett’s decision to write in French, Rabaté inscribes him in a continental context marked by a “writing degree zero” while showing the prescience and ethical import of Beckett’s tendency to subvert the “human” through the theme of the animal. Beckett’s “declaration of inhuman rights,” he argues, offers the funniest mode of expression available to us today.

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341

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Fordham Univ Press

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0823270874

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9780823270873

James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

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James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

In James Joyce and the politics of egoism a leading scholar approaches the entire Joycean canon through the concept of "egoism". This concept, Jean-Michel Rabaté argues, runs throughout Joyce's work, and involves and incorporates its opposite, "hospitality", a term Rabaté understands as meaning an ethical and linguistic opening to "the other". Rabaté explores Joyce's complex negotiation between these two poles in a study of interest to all scholars of modernism.

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0511043953

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1913

The Cradle of Modernism

By: Jean-Michael Rabate

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The Cradle of Modernism

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1405161922

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Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

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Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

Ezra Pound's Cantos remains among the most influential and difficult of twentieth century poetic writings. But now, for the first time, Rabaté's powerful and original study presents a theory of reading adequate to the challenge of Pound's writing. Using elements from Lacanian psycho-analysis and Heidegger's powerful meditation of poetry and language, this book constructs a theory of reading which both gives full force to the strategies of writing deployed in the Cantos and to the historical and political situations to which those strategies are a response. This study provides a fresh reading of the familiar Pound canon: Homer, Dante, Ovid but also of the less well-known: Ruskin, Browning, Frobenius. Pound's practice of quotation is understood in the context of a new poetic discourse characterized by parapraxis, ellipsis, condensation and autonomous "voices" which refer the division of the speaking subject back to an "omniform" intellect capable of taking on any new personality at will. Crucial to an understanding of Pound's situation is the relationship between Chinese and Greek culture, an analysis of which allows Rabaté to elaborate the tragic dimension in Pound's life and works. This book also parallels and contrasts Pound with his major contemporaries such as Eliot and Joyce and with his immediate heirs, like William Carlos Williams, H.D., Zukofsky, and Olson.

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State University of New York Press

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1438416679

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9781438416670

James Joyce

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

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James Joyce

By: Jean-Michel Rabaté

Longtemps interdits ou ignorés, les livres de James Joyce ont gardé une grande partie de leur mystère, et une certaine réputation d'hermétisme, qui en font encore une terra incognita de notre modernité. Ce n'est pas un hasard : son œuvre, fourmillante de merveilles et de faux-semblants, a été conçue avec l'intention délibérée d'égarer le lecteur dans une sorte de dédale qui prend la forme d'un véritable univers au second degré. C'est à l'exploration de ce labyrinthe que nous convie cet essai, avec toutes les clefs nécessaires pour franchir une à une les portes du sanctuaire. Du Portrait de l'artiste à Dublinois, des Exilés à Ulysse et Finnegans Wake, Jean-Michel Rabaté nous fait entrer dans l'intimité d'une pensée créatrice, qui a construit l'une des œuvres les plus éblouissantes de la littérature mondiale.

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FeniXX

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2014611564

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Book's by Jean-Michel Rabate

The Pathos of Distance

The Pathos of Distance

1913

1913

Rust

Rust

The Future of Theory

The Future of Theory

Crimes of the Future

Crimes of the Future

The Future of Theory

The Future of Theory

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis

The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis

Think, Pig!

Think, Pig!

James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism

James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism

1913

1913

Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos

Language, Sexuality, and Ideology in Ezra Pound's Cantos

James Joyce

James Joyce

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