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The Abyss of Representation
Marxism and the Postmodern Sublime
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George Hartley
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Edited by:
Stanley Fish
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English
Published/Copyright:
2003
About this book
A theoretical work, a mediation on the nature of representation--the Vorstellung/Darstellung distinction--in relation to theoretical practices of Hegelianism, psychoanalysis (especially Lacan), and Marxism. Explores the works of Kant, Lacan, Hegel, Althu
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George Hartley is Associate Professor of English at Ohio University. He is author of Textual Politics and the Language Poets.
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"The Abyss of Representation is an ambitious and highly illuminating book."—Ernesto Laclau
”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
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Frontmatter
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CONTENTS
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Acknowledgments
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Abbreviations for Works Cited
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ONE Representation and the Abyss of Subjectivity
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TWO Presentation beyond Representation: Kant and the Limits of Discursive Understanding
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THREE The Speculative Proposition: Hegel and the Drama of Presentation
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FOUR Marx’s Key Concept? Althusser and the Darstellung Question
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FIVE Figuration and the Sublime Logic of the Real: Jameson’s Libidinal Apparatuses
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SIX The Theater of Figural Space
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SEVEN Can the Symptom Speak? Hegemony and the Problem of Cultural Representation
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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July 16, 2003
eBook ISBN:
9780822384557
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360
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2 tables, 5 figures
