Odysseys of Recognition - Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Kleist (Hardcover)

Literary recognition is a technical term for a climactic plot device. Odysseys of Recognition claims that interpersonal recognition is constituted by performance, and brings performance theory into dialogue with poetics, politics, and philosophy. By observing Odysseus figures from Homer to Kleist, Ellwood Wiggins offers an alternative to conventional intellectual histories that situate the invention of the interior self in modernity. Through strategic readings of Aristotle, this elegantly written, innovative study recovers an understanding of interpersonal recognition that has become strange and counterintuitive. Penelope in Homer’s Odyssey offers a model for agency in ethical knowledge that has a lot to teach us today. Early modern and eighteenth-century characters, meanwhile, discover themselves not deep within an impenetrable self, but in the interpersonal space between people in the world. Recognition, Wiggins contends, is the moment in which epistemology and ethics coincide: in which what we know becomes manifest in what we do. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.

General

Imprint:	Bucknell University Press,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	New Studies in the Age of Goethe
Release date:	February 2019
Authors:	Ellwood Wiggins
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	342
ISBN-13:	978-1-68448-038-8
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-68448-038-8
Barcode:	9781684480388

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