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The Ghosts of Modernity (Hardcover, New)
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The Ghosts of Modernity (Hardcover, New)
Series: Crosscurrents: Comparative Studies in European Literature & Philosophy
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"Rabate's strength is that he does not treat modernism as a
monolith. The study's originality is in its close examination of
several 'key' themes in several 'key' texts, almost all of which he
reads autobiographically. . . . It is the pattern of these themes
as well as the psychoanalytic method that holds these essays
together. The result is a fresh look not at modernism as a whole,
but at some central themes and images of the modernists."--S. E.
Gontarski, Crosscurrents Series Editor Jean-Michel Rabate, the
eminent French Joycean, combines psychoanalytical and philosophical
concepts in rereading the history of modernity to give a more
precise meaning to the term "modernism." Rabate focuses throughout
on a single theme, the ghostly nature of modernity. In writing a
history of the concept of modernity with the awareness that the
radically new has often been subject to the effects of the return
of the repressed, Rabate analyzes the notion of loss in various
fields: in Freudian aesthetics of color, in literary history, and
in philosophy. The postmodernist fascination with a lost object
allows a reconsideration of the boundaries of such terms as
"modernism" and "postmodernism." The conclusion ties together all
these motifs, from Joyce to Barthes, together and shows their
theoretical basis in Marx's criticism of ideology and in Freud's
consideration of mourning. From the analysis of "color" as an
unthinkable object of discourse to an aesthetics of the
unpresentable, Rabate points to the possibility of an "ethics of
mourning," which would seem capable of overcoming the dead end of
history whose ending condemns it to eternal repetition. This work
will appeal to a wide community of scholars. Its strong French and
continental emphasis has application in literary studies,
particularly English, French, and comparative studies. Jean-Michel
Rabate is Marjorie G. Ernest Term Professor of English at the
University of Pennsylvania. He is the coeditor of L'Ethique du don:
Jacques Derrida et la question du don and the author of numerous
books, including James Joyce, Joyce upon the Void: The Genesis of
Doubt, Thomas Bernhard, and La Beaute amere.
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