Textual Layering - Contact, Historicity, Critique (Hardcover)

Textual Layering: Contact, Historicity, Critique sets out to rethink our relation to textual tradition against the background of several contemporary developments, including the emergence of digital culture, the increasing spectacularization of psychic as well as social life, the renegotiation of historical thinking, and the precarious position of the theoretical humanities within academia. To this end, the volume re-invests the concept of "layering," a concept currently used in a wide range of fields, including metaphor studies and linguistics, cybernetics, the social sciences, art, and architecture. Drawing on existing definitions of "layering," the chapters in this book return to and re-appraise some of the most crucial concerns in the post-1960s theoretical scene: that is, concerns over the strained interplay between writing and the body; textuality and history; critique, differance and the feminine; memory, trace, and the immemorial. The aim of the diverse-often polemical-analyses carried out in this volume is to reactivate the critical force of textual tradition today through a renewed appreciation of its historical embeddedness, its libidinal sources, as well as its complex economy of separation and contact, diachronicity and synchronicity, (re)layering and de-layering. This collection will be of interest to scholars of continental philosophy, literary theory, gender studies, architecture, film and visual culture studies, psychoanalysis, postmodernism, post-colonial studies, and political and social theory.

General

Imprint:	Lexington Books
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	TEXTURES: Philosophy / Literature / Culture
Release date:	March 2017
Editors:	Maria Margaroni • Apostolos Lampropoulos • Christakis Chatzichristou
Contributors:	Apostolos Lampropoulos • Frances Restuccia • John Lechte • Judith Wambacq • William Watkin • Michael Beehler • Brendan Moran
Dimensions:	239 x 158 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	322
ISBN-13:	978-1-4985-0133-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Essays, journals, letters & other prose works > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	1-4985-0133-8
Barcode:	9781498501330

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