Erin Graff Zivin

Anarchaeologies (eBook, PDF)

Reading as Misreading

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Produktbeschreibung

How do we read after the so-called death of literature? If we are to attend to the proclamations that the representational apparatuses of literature and politics are dead, what aesthetic, ethical, and political possibilities remain for us today? Our critical moment, Graff Zivin argues, demands anarchaeological reading: reading for the blind spots, errors, points of opacity or untranslatability in works of philosophy and art.Rather than applying concepts from philosophy in order to understand or elucidate cultural works, the book exposes works of philosophy, literary theory, narrative, poetry, film, and performance art and activism to one another. Working specifically with art, film, and literature from Argentina (Jorge Luis Borges, Jun Jos Saer, Ricardo Piglia, Csar Aira, Albertina Carri, the Internacional Errorista), Graff Zivin allows such thinkers as Levinas, Derrida, Badiou, and Rancire to be inflected by Latin American cultural production. Through these acts of interdiscursive and interdisciplinary (or indisciplinary) exposure, such ethical and political concepts as identification and recognition, decision and event, sovereignty and will, are read as constitutively impossible, erroneous. Rather than weakening either ethics or politics, however, the anarchaeological reading these works stage and demand opens up and radicalizes the possibility of justice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823286843
• Artikelnr.: 72415338

Autorenporträt

Erin Graff Zivin is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese and of Comparative Literature at the University of Southern California. She is the author of Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic (Northwestern University Press, 2014, winner of the 2015 Award for Best Book, Latin American Jewish Studies Association) and The Wandering Signifier: Rhetoric of Jewishness in the Latin American Imaginary (Duke University Press, 2008).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Ethical and Political Thinking after Literature 1
Part I. Anarchaeologies
Misunderstanding Literature 21
Toward an Anarchaeological Latinamericanism 31
Part II. The Ethical Turn
Ethics against Politics 53
Levinas in Latin America 60
Part III. Violent Ethics
Abraham¿s Double Bind 77
Untimely Ethics: Deconstruction and Its Precursors 89
Part IV. Political Thinking after Literature
The Metapolitics of Allegory 107
The Aesthetics and Politics of Error 121
Part V. Exposure and Indisciplinarity
Toward a Passive University 139
Afterword: Truth and Error in the Age of Trump 153
Acknowledgments 159
Notes 163
Bibliography 177
Index 187