This volume juxtaposes philosophical and psychoanalytic speculation
with literary and artistic commentary in order to approach a set of
questions concerning the human relation to language, a relation
that cannot be taken as an "object" of critical or philosophical
reflection in the traditional manner. Exploring the exigencies of
figuring this relation at the limits of language, the multifold
writing of this volume takes the form of a "triptych" (following
the model of works by Francis Bacon) rather than that of a thesis.
The central (and organizing) section of the volume contains an
extended dialogue on two textual passages portraying versions of
what the author describes as "the death of the "infans."" With the
strange resonance of the "primal" or the "originary," these two
scenes from works by Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Lacan invite a
reflection on the mortal exposure that marks the human share in the
advent of language, an exposure whose figuration is necessary to
any speech or conscious life. The dialogue explores the ethical and
philosophical issues that surface in a practice of writing (a
"pragmatics") that engages this necessary figuration, and thus the
limits of language. The latter issues are also explored in a brief
essay on "Antigone" that concludes the dialogical fiction.
The first and third parts of the volume's triptych address artistic
projects that realize in their respective ways a pragmatics like
that of the central section. The first part focuses on the work of
Francis Bacon, taking the motif of crucifixion as a path toward
understanding his violent realism. This essay is prefaced by a
consideration of the notion of cruelty to which Nietzsche appeals
in "The Genealogy of Morals." The third part, which juxtaposes a
dialogue with a critical essay, concerns the work of Salvatore
Puglia. Through Bacon and Puglia, the author seeks another approach
to a figural imperative at the limits of language.
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