George Hartley

The Abyss of Representation

Marxism and the Postmodern Sublime

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Produktbeschreibung

""The Abyss of Representation" is an outstanding contribution to a theory of literature and aesthetic philosophy. It is a strong elaboration of the failure inherent in representation and that failure's relevance to a cultural and political theory."--Michael Bernard-Donals, coauthor of "Between Witness and Testimony: The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juli 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9780822331278
• ISBN-10: 0822331276
• Artikelnr.: 21343782

Autorenporträt

George Hartley is Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. He is author of Textual Politics and the Language Poets.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations for Works Cited xi
1. Representation and the Abyss of Subjectivity 1
2. Presentation beyond Representation: Kant and the Limits of Discursive
Understanding 22
3. The Speculative Proposition: Hegel and the Drama of Presentation 53
4. Marx’s Key Concept? Althusser and the Darstellung Question 84
5. Figuration and the Sublime Logic of the Real: Jameson’s Libidinal
Apparatuses 127
6. The Theater of Figural Space 182
7. Can the Symptom Speak? Hegemony and the Problem of Cultural
Representation 235
Notes 295
Bibliography 319
Index 327