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Beyond Deconstruction
The controversy over Jacques Derrida's legacy is one of the most effective engines driving the contemporary debate, far beyond the bounds of philosophy. By now, the variety of contesting positions is so wide that it calls for a critical assessment to achieve a unified theoretical scheme. The dyad of deconstruction and reconstruction, to which the title of the volume refers, aims at composing a kind of map of this debate. The three sections of the book include essays that investigate specific aspects of Derrida's reception, from the view of 1. philosophy, 2. literary studies and 3. politics and law. These contributions study the implications of deconstruction beyond its original scope and intervene by taking stock of its most relevant aporias.
Minos and the Moderns
Minos and the Moderns considers three mythological complexes that enjoyed a unique surge of interest in early twentieth-century European art and literature: Europa and the bull, the minotaur and the labyrinth, and Daedalus and Icarus. All three are situated on the island of Crete and are linked by the figure of King Minos. Drawing examples from fiction, poetry, drama, painting, sculpture, opera, and ballet, Minos and the Moderns is the first book of its kind to treat the role of the Cretan myths in the modern imagination. Beginning with the resurgence of Crete in the modern consciousness in 1900 following the excavations of Sir Arthur Evans, Theodore Ziolkowski shows how the tale of Europa-i...
La Lumire Jusqu' La Lie
Un vieil alpiniste qui vit une ascension rocambolesque, un boucher qui devient fou � cause d'une simple mouche, un cordonnier qui entretient jusqu'au bout des relations curieusement professionnelles avec les femmes, un p�cheur qui se prend d'amiti� pour un �crivain , ou encore cette dame respectable qui se meurt d'amour pour son voisin qui l'ignore, cette autre aussi, qui d�couvre le bonheur sexuel en nettoyant une tombe, et tant d'autres encore, qui cherchent, dans des d�tails millim�triques, de bonnes raisons � leur fin de vie : acides sans amertume, parfois burlesques, les nouvelles de la Lumi�re jusqu'� la lie rel�vent de l'insurrection du grand �ge contre la condition qui nous est faite d'inventer sans cesse notre propre aventure.
Troubled Legacies
What is being passed on? The questions of heritage and inheritance are crucial to American minority literatures. Some inheritances are claimed; some are imposed and become stifling; others still are impossible, like the memories of oppression or alienation. Heritage is not only patrimony, however; it is also a process in a state of constant reconfiguration. The body – its semiotics, its genealogy, its pressure points – figures prominently as inevitable referent for the minority racial/ethnic subject, the performance, and the writing of difference. This collection of essays analyzes contemporary novels from major African American writers, such as Gayl Jones, Phyllis Alesia Perry, Percival...
Black American Women’s Voices and Transgenerational Trauma
This book concentrates on six neo-slave narratives written by late 20th and early 21st century black American women: Octavia Butler’s Kindred, Phyllis Alesia Perry’s Stigmata and A Sunday in June, Gayl Jones’ Corregidora, Joan California Cooper’s Family, and Athena Lark’s Avenue of Palms. It explores the process of re(-)membering of the black female characters in these novels, and shows how these authors manage to both write the transgenerational trauma of slavery and write through it, enabling black American women’s voices to be heard. This analysis of famous classics, as well as less-known books, demonstrates how black American women’s traumatic memory of slavery is inscribed in a transgenerational black female body. Conjuring up questions of narratology and intertextuality, it highlights how working-through takes the form of a narrativization of this traumatic memory by diverse means. This book also reflects upon the links between the collective and personal psyches by laying emphasis on the ineluctable intertwining of national history and individual destiny.
Present Pasts
This is the first in-depth study of the twelve Modiano texts specifically concerned with life-writing in autobiographical and biographical-cum-historiographical projects. The texts covered range from La Place de l’étoile (1968) through to La Petite Bijou (2001). Close textual analysis is combined with a theoretical approach based on current thinking in autobiography, biography, and reader-response. Modiano’s use of autofiction and biofiction is analysed in the light of his continuing obsession with both personal trauma and History, as well as his problematic relationship with his paternally-inherited Jewish links. His view of identity (of self and other) is thus discussed in relation to a particular literary and socio-historical context– French, postmodern, post-World War II, and post-Holocaust.
Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness
Fiction and the Philosophy of Happiness explores the novel's participation in eighteenth-century "inquiries after happiness," an ancient ethical project that acquired new urgency with the rise of subjective models of wellbeing in early modern and Enlightenment Europe. Combining archival research on treatises on happiness with illuminating readings of Samuel Johnson, Laurence Sterne, Denis Diderot, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, William Godwin and Mary Hays, Brian Michael Norton's innovative study asks us to see the novel itself as a key instrument of Enlightenment ethics. His central argument is that the novel form provided a uniquely valuable tool for thinking about the nature and challenges of mod...
The Great Brain Race
How global competition for the brightest minds is changing higher education In The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account of how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of higher education--and why this revolution should be welcomed, not feared. Every year, nearly three million international students study outside of their home countries, a 40 percent increase since 1999. Newly created or expanded universities in China, India, and Saudi Arabia are competing with the likes of Harvard and Oxford for faculty, students, and research preeminence. Satellite campuses of Western universit...
Social Up
Social Up est le nom de l'unique réseau social qui fonctionne encore en Europan en 2064. 700 millions de personnes s'y connectent chaque jour obligatoirement. Chacun doit vivre pour les autres, c'est la règle, dans cette nouvelle nation où, comme partout dans le monde, l'Intelligence Artificielle oriente l'essentiel des activités humaines. Ernesto Parzo vit dans le quartier de San Lorenzo, à Rome. Comme les autres, le vieil épicier se plie à la compassion obligatoire, parle globish autant qu'italien, cache ses penchants nocifs pour le passé, tout en entretenant de façon maladive le deuil de sa défunte femme. Au point d'accepter de vivre une expérimentation qui va le jeter hors de lui. Social Up s'inscrit avec beaucoup d'originalité et de justesse dans la longue lignée des romans d'anticipation qui interrogent nos certitudes les plus ancrées sur les rapports humains, sur la réalité de nos émotions, de nos souvenirs, sur l'illusion d'ètre soi, au travers d'une relation vertigineuse avec une machine humanoïde. Dans ce récit qui mèle sarcasme et poésie, humour et nostalgie, tout ou presque de ce qui nous est montré peut un jour advenir.
