On Spectrality - Fantasies of Redemption in the Western Canon (Hardcover)

In this bold and highly original work, David Ratmoko offers an analysis of haunting in the history of European literature, law, and politics, in the wake of Derrida's notion of 'spectrality'. Interested in figures of redemption from guilt, he traces the rise of canonical literature through the history of an encryption or transcoding that has produced such fantastic compromises as Exodus, Greek tragedy, Dante's Comedia, and Shakespeare's Hamlet as well as the conversion into capitalism. Addressing the issue of ghosts through our modern crisis of legitimacy, as raised by Benjamin, Schmitt, and Kafka, Ratmoko explores Freud's idea of traumatic fantasy in its capacity of driving the progress of spirituality or spectrality in the Judeo-Christian world.

General

Imprint:	Peter Lang Publishing
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2005
Authors:	David Ratmoko
Dimensions:	230 x 160 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	163
ISBN-13:	978-0-8204-8130-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
LSN:	0-8204-8130-0
Barcode:	9780820481302

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