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Logics of Separation

Exile and Transcendence in Aesthetic Modernity

de Michael Stone-Richards (Auteur)
©2011 Monographies XX, 432 Pages

Résumé

This book is made up of a set of innovative close readings and meditations on the significance of the modes and logics of separation in the thinking of aesthetic modernity. Separation is defined in Hegelian and psychoanalytic terms as psychic processes in the formation of identity that necessarily entail self-division and estrangement in the emergence of subjectivity and social identity. This phenomenon, called subjection, has been at the core of psychoanalytic readings since the work of Melanie Klein.
The works under consideration in the volume include material by W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, C.L.R. James, Ralph Ellison, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, and Paul Celan, as well as the sorrow songs/Negro Spirituals. In each case the moment of passivity and modes of separation are approached as sites of inescapable conflict. The varying psychic, ethical, and political tensions underwriting this experience are examined in detail for each case study.

Résumé des informations

Pages
XX, 432
Année de publication
2011
ISBN (PDF)
9783035301557
ISBN (Broché)
9783039110087
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0353-0155-7
Langue
anglais
Date de parution
2011 (Août)
Mots clés
formation of identity psycho-analytic readings since Melanie Klein Separation is explored in fundamentally Hegelian and psychoanalytic terms as a set of psychic processes social identity
Publié
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2011. XX, 432 pp., num. ill.
Sécurité des produits
Peter Lang Group AG

Notes biographiques

Michael Stone-Richards (Auteur)

Michael Stone-Richards teaches in the Department of Liberal Arts, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, as professor in comparative literature and critical theory. He has published widely in French and English on critical theory, philosophy, and the intellectual history of the avant-garde and has translated the work of the psychoanalyst Pierre Fédida. His current research encompasses the work of Simone Weil, Frantz Fanon, Jean Wahl, Guy Debord and the French Baroque, Pierre Fédida, and Jean-Bertrand Pontalis.

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