The Tain of the Mirror

The Tain of the Mirror

Author: Rodolphe Gasché

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 362

ISBN-13: 9780674867017

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Deconstruction is no game of mirrors, revealing the text as a play of surface against surface. Its more radical philosophical effort is to get behind the mirror and question the very nature of reflection. The Tain of the Mirror explores that gritty surface without which no reflection would be possible.


Inventions of Difference

Inventions of Difference

Author: Rodolphe Gasché

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780674464438

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Nine essays written over a dozen years explore problems of engaging the ideas of the contemporary French philosopher and their reception in the US. Deconstruction as criticism, the eclipse of difference, structural infinity, and responding responsibly are among the perspectives. Several of the essays have been previously published. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


The Mirror

The Mirror

Author: Sabine Melchoir-Bonnet

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1136687602

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This engaging and witty cultural history traces the evolution of the mirror from antiquity to the present day, illustrating its journey from wondrous object to ordinary trinket. With its earliest invention, the mirror allowed us to gaze upon ourselves, bestowing a power both fascinating and terrifying.


The Tain

The Tain

Author: China Miéville

Publisher:

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 89

ISBN-13: 9781902880648

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Georges Bataille

Georges Bataille

Author: Rodolphe Gasché

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2012-10-24

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0804784280

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This book investigates what Bataille, in "The Pineal Eye," calls mythological representation: the mythological anthropology with which this unusual thinker wished to outflank and undo scientific (and philosophical) anthropology. Gasché probes that anthropology by situating Bataille's thought with respect to the quatrumvirate of Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud. He begins by showing what Bataille's understanding of the mythological owes to Schelling. Drawing on Hegel, Nietzsche, and Freud, he then explores the notion of image that constitutes the sort of representation that Bataille's innovative approach entails. Gasché concludes that Bataille's mythological anthropology takes on Hegel's phenomenology in a systematic fashion. By reading it backwards, he not only dismantles its architecture, he also ties each level to the preceding one, replacing the idealities of philosophy with the phantasmatic representations of what he dubs "low materialism." Phenomenology, Gasché argues, thus paves the way for a new "science" of phantasms.


The Tain of Hamlet

The Tain of Hamlet

Author: Laurie Johnson

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-10-17

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1443869929

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Shakespeare's Hamlet is considered by many to be the cornerstone of the English literary canon, a play that remains universally relevant. Yet it seems likely that we have spent so long reading the play for its capacity to reflect ourselves that we have lost sight of the thing itself. The goal of this book is to look beyond the Hamlet that has bedazzled critics for centuries, to seek to apprehend the play in all of its historical distinctness. This is not simply the search for what the play me...


For They Know Not What They Do

For They Know Not What They Do

Author: Slavoj Zizek

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 533

ISBN-13: 1789603595

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Psychoanalysis is less merciful than Christianity. Where God the Father forgives our ignorance, psychoanalysis holds out no such hope. Ignorance is not a sufficient ground for forgiveness since it masks enjoyment; an enjoyment which erupts in those black holes in our symbolic universe that escape the Father's prohibition. Today, with the disintegration of state socialism, we are witnessing this eruption of enjoymnet in the re-emergence of aggressive nationalism and racism. With the lid of repression lifted, the desires that have emerged are far from democratic. To explain this apparent paradox, says Slavoj Zizek, socialist critical thought must turn to psychoanalysis. For They Know Not What They Do seeks to understand the status of enjoyment within ideological discourse, from Hegel through Lacan to these political and ideological deadlocks. The author's own enjoyment of "popular culture" makes this an engaging and lucid exposition, in which Hegel joins hands with Rossellini, Marx with Hitchcock, Lacan with Frankenstein, high theory with Hollywood melodrama.


Medusa's Mirrors

Medusa's Mirrors

Author: Julia M. Walker

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780874136258

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The question of selfhood in Renaissance texts constitutes a scholarly and critical debate of almost unmanageable proportions. The author of this work begins by questioning the strategies with which male writers depict powerful women. Although Spenser's Britomart, Shakespeare's Cleopatra, and Milton's Eve figure selfhood very differently and to very different ends, they do have two significant elements in common: mirrors and transformations that diminish the power of the female self.


Festivals of Interpretation

Festivals of Interpretation

Author: Kathleen Wright

Publisher: SUNY Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9780791403778

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This book engages and clarifies concepts crucial to Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, including the concepts of effective-history, tradition, dialogue, and language. Festivals of Interpretation exhibits the universal scope of hermeneutics. The authors respond to three questions often raised about Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics. Part One takes up the question of how Gadamer understands truth. It discusses how hermeneutical truth relates to methods, how truth may be thought to be historically conditioned without at the same time being relative, and how a truthful interpretation can produce a new understanding while simultaneously remaining faithful to the text. Part Two brings out the political, legal, and social relevance of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics by focusing on the role interpretation plays in times of political crisis, of disputes in Constitutional law, of changing ideas of societal needs such as health care, and of increased technological control of public opinion. The last question often asked about Gadamer's work concerns its relation to poetry. Part Three treats the challenge posed to philosophy by poetry in general and particularly by the poetry of Paul Celan as well as questions raised recently by Jacques Derrida about different ways of thinking about interpretation and text.


Textual Practice

Textual Practice

Author: Terence Hawkes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-08-08

Total Pages: 153

ISBN-13: 1134957785

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First Published in 1989. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.