Maps and Mirrors: Topologies of Art and Politics by Steve Martinot

By Steve Martinot

Maps and Mirrors explores the hyperlinks and gaps among the cultured and the political on the intersection of philosophy and literature. checking out the key voices of aesthetic and literary idea, it increases vital questions about the implicit political contexts and commitments of thinkers from Kant to de guy. Taken jointly the essays supply a travel of the complexities and richness of up to date modes of critique.

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Robert Scholes delivered a paper at the IAPL conference from which these essays were drawn on precisely this issue. : Yale University Press, 1989). Other philosophers have taken issue with Derrida on this question. ” Yale Journal of Criticism 2, no. 2 (1989): 207–17. Rorty divides philosophers into those who make sense within traditional frameworks and those who are creative and therefore don’t; Derrida is in the latter category. Claude Evans, in Strategies of Deconstruction (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1991), provides a more extensive argument on the issue of rigor and philosophical logic.

The risen one both fulfills and annuls the work of the precursor” (“F,” 51), then how is a subordinated, passed-away, annulled figura preserved? What is the nature of this preservation? A clue to the beginnings of an answer lies in figura’s polemic origin. Auerbach writes: “Figural interpretation changed the Old Testament from a book of laws and a history of the people of Israel into a series of figures of Christ and the redemption. . Jewish history and national character had vanished” so that the “Celtic and Germanic peoples, for example, 10 Figura Preserves could accept the Old Testament” (“F,” 52).

Maurice Blanchot, The Space of Literature, trans. Ann Smock (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1982), 79. 3. Søren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling/Repetition, trans. and ed. Howard V. Hong and Edna H. : Princeton University Press, 1983), 37. 4. Ernst Robert Curtius, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (1948), trans. Willard R. : Princeton University Press, 1953), 42. 5. Augustine, Confessions, trans. R. S. 14; hereafter cited parenthetically in the text. 6. ” review of The Amaranth- 14 Figura Preserves ers by Jack B.

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