Textual Layering
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Textual Layering

Contact, Historicity, Critique

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Textual Layering

Contact, Historicity, Critique

About this book

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, différance 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.

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Yes, you can access Textual Layering by Maria Margaroni,Apostolos Lampropoulos,Christakis Chatzichristou in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & Philosophical Essays. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Year
2017
eBook ISBN
9781498501347

Table of contents

  1. Abbreviations
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. General Introduction Textual Tradition, Body-Layering, and Nagiko’s Seductions
  4. PART ONE: Thinking with/Thinking between
  5. PART TWO: Displaced Pasts, Emerging Topographies
  6. PART THREE: De-Layerings of the Feminine
  7. Epilogue Layering Is Not
  8. Notes
  9. Bibliography
  10. Contributors
  11. Volume Editors