The Doppelgänger: literature's philosophy
This book presents literature as the double of philosophy. This relation is historically rooted in the genesis of the doppelgänger as literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity: the term doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality, and human agency. This critique prefigures late twentieth century extrapolations of the subject as decentered. From this perspective, the doppelgänger…
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- Full title :The Doppelgänger : literature's philosophy / Dimitris Vardoulakis.
Summary
This book presents literature as the double of philosophy. This relation is historically rooted in the genesis of the doppelgänger as literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity: the term doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality, and human agency. This critique prefigures late twentieth century extrapolations of the subject as decentered. From this perspective, the doppelgänger has a family resemblance to current conceptualizations of subjectivity. It becomes the emblematic subject of modernity. This book examines authors such as Franz Kafka, Maurice Blanchot, and Alexandros Papadiamantes and philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Derrida to show how the doppelgänger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophy's relation to literature.
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- Publication Date:2010.
- Edition:1st ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Fordham University Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2010.
The Physical Object
- Description:xiii, 329 pages ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780823232987, 0823232980, 9780823232994, 0823232999, 9780823233007, 0823233006
- oclc:ocn491917156
- LC Classification:B66
- Dewey Decimal:190
Table of Contents
Reflections of the doppelgänger -- Critique of loneliness : the genesis of the doppelgänger -- Subject of modernity : law and temporality in Alexandros Papadiamantes -- Task of the doppelgänger : Jean Paul as collocutor of Maurice Blanchot -- Politics of the doppelgänger : universal history and cosmopolitanism -- Self-inscriptions : failing Kafka and Benjamin.
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