Book
Licensed
Unlicensed
Requires Authentication
Persons and Things
-
Barbara E. Johnson
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2010
About this book
Johnson begins with the most elementary thing we know: deconstruction calls attention to gaps and reveals that their claims upon us are fraudulent. She revolutionizes the method by showing that the inanimate thing exposed as a delusion is central to fantasy life, that fantasy life, however deluded, should be taken seriously.
Reviews
Persons and Things secures Barbara Johnson's place as the most important literary critic of our day. This exhilaratingly intelligent book is an American grammatology of pop culture, advertisements, and political rhetoric. Johnson provides lucid, even thrilling insights into the rhetorical framing of living subjects, legal persons, non-persons and things. Filled with the phantasmagoria of talking tombstones, babbling Barbies, puppets, pets, and golden calves, Persons and Things is a trove of cracklingly decoded insight. Never has text spoken so eloquently.
-- Patricia Williams, author of Alchemy of Race and Rights and The Rooster's Egg
-- Patricia Williams, author of Alchemy of Race and Rights and The Rooster's Egg
Barbara Johnson's well earned reputation is for being a rare theorist who knows how to write. In Persons and Things she juggles like a pro as she throws Ovid, catches Keats, throws Marianne Moore, catches Francis Ponge, throws Kant, catches Winnicott so as to illuminate the relationship that humans have to things. This book is itself a thing of beauty to read.
-- Juliana Spahr, author of This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems
-- Juliana Spahr, author of This Connection of Everyone with Lungs: Poems
A most readable and interesting book filled with insightful comments on everything from Toys R Us to lyric poetry...The book has rich interpretations of the usual suspects (Derrida, Foucault, Paul de Man, Nietzsche, Baudelaire), rich and comprehensive notes, and a useful index.
-- Bob Lane Metapsychology
-- Bob Lane Metapsychology
Topics
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
i |
|
Publicly Available Download PDF |
vii |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
1 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
3 |
|
Things
|
|
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
27 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
34 |
|
The Thingliness of Persons
|
|
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
47 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
61 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
83 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
94 |
|
The Personhood of Things
|
|
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
109 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
131 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
153 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
163 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
168 |
|
Persons
|
|
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
179 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
188 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
208 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
229 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
235 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
251 |
|
Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF |
253 |
Publishing information
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
eBook published on:
March 31, 2010
eBook ISBN:
9780674056534
Pages and Images/Illustrations in book
Main content:
272
eBook ISBN:
9780674056534
Audience(s) for this book
Professional and scholarly;
