Anarchaeologies (eBook)

Reading as Misreading

Erin Graff Zivin (Autor)

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2020
192 Seiten
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-8683-6 (ISBN)

Infos

How do we read after the so-called death of literature? Graff Zivin elaborates anarchaeological reading: reading for the blind spots, errors, points of opacity or untranslatability. Through interdiscursive exposure between continental philosophy and Argentine literature, art, and film, Graff Zivin shows how anarchaeological reading radicalizes the possibility of justice.

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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.

Autor

lt;b>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).

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.1.2020
• Reihe/Serie: Lit Z
• Zusatzinfo: 12
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Schlagworte: Albertina Carri • Argentinian literature • César Aira • Continental Philosophy • Deconstruction • Emmanuel Levinas • ethics • Jacques Derrida • Jorge Luis Borges • Latin American Studies • Paul de Man • Politics • Ricardo Piglia
• ISBN-10: 0-8232-8683-5 / 0823286835
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-8683-6 / 9780823286836