Andrew Parker

The Theorist's Mother

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Produktbeschreibung

Andrew Parker is Professor of English at Amherst College. He is the editor and co-translator of Jacques Ranciere’s The Philosopher and His Poor and a co-editor of After Sex? On Writing since Queer Theory, both also published by Duke University Press.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 567g
• ISBN-13: 9780822352327
• ISBN-10: 082235232X
• Artikelnr.: 34229343

Autorenporträt

Andrew Parker is Professor of English at Amherst College. He is the editor and co-translator of Jacques Ranciere’s The Philosopher and His Poor and a co-editor of After Sex? On Writing since Queer Theory, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments xi
Introduction: Philosophy's Mother Trouble 1
1. Mom, Encore: Rereading, Teaching, and "Maternal Divination" 29
Beware the Crocodile! 29
"Mom" 34
Lacan's Two Bodies 40
Do Not Read 45
"Maternal Divination" 54
2. History, Fiction, and "The Author of Waverley; or, Fathers and Sons in
Marxist Criticism 57
Family Romances 57
The Prehistory of the Present 59
The History of the Father 68
Fictions: Of Paternity 74
"The Author of Waverley 80
3. Translating Revolution: Freud, Marx, and the Mameloshn 88
The Mother of Language 88
The Translator's Hand(s) 91
Philosophies of Translation 95
Forgetting the Mother Tongue 99
The Mameloshn 103
Coda: Other Maternities 111
Notes 117
Bibliography 149
Index 173