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OverviewThis book investigates the reciprocal and often transgressive relations between rhetorical figures and libidinal activity. The works of Nietzsche, Artaud, Bataille, Klossowski, and Sade are reconsidered in light of the modernist and postmodernist problematics of simulacra, fascination, sublimation and desublimation, perversion, deconstruction, and libidinal economies. Reading across the boundaries of philosophy, art history, comparative literature, film studies, and psychoanalytic theory, this work reveals the manner in which theoretical discourse is imbued with passional motivations, and, conversely, shows how the passions are structured according to logical and rhetorical figures. In offering specific rereadings of several key figures of our modernist tradition, this work helps identify the sources of the 'postmodern condition.' It thus provides a theoretical foundation for contemporary art and literary criticism-especially of those works to be found at the margins of our culture. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Allen S. WeissPublisher: State University of New York Press Imprint: State University of New York Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.463kg ISBN: 9780791400524ISBN 10: 0791400522 Pages: 228 Publication Date: 03 July 1989 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: In Print  Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock. Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments I. Nietzsche Redivivus 1. Posession Trance and Dramatic Perversity 2. Impossible Sovereignty II. Sadian Figures 3. A Logic of the Simulacrum 4. A New History of the Passions 5. Structures of Exchange, Acts of Transgression 6. Demented, Deoedipalized, Deconstructed III. A Fine Madness 7. The Errant Text 8. L'Amour Fou, L'Amour Unique 9. The Other as Muse 10. Psychopompomania IV. Cinematic Transgressions 11. Cartesian Simulacra 12. On the Art of Fascination 13. Frampton's Lemma, Zorn's Dilemma 14. Between the Signs of the Scorpion and the Sign of the Cross Notes Index of NamesReviewsI think the work is a major event in the American appropriation of European philosophical and aesthetic theory. It is active and creative rather than slavish and derivative. Most important of all, it is a book from which I learned something. - Bernard Flynn, Empire State College I especially admire its scope and erudition, its richness of allusion, reference, and quotation. It is rare to read a text that so intelligently weaves together material from so many disciplines. - David Michael Levin, Northwestern University """I think the work is a major event in the American appropriation of European philosophical and aesthetic theory. It is active and creative rather than slavish and derivative. Most important of all, it is a book from which I learned something."" - Bernard Flynn, Empire State College ""I especially admire its scope and erudition, its richness of allusion, reference, and quotation. It is rare to read a text that so intelligently weaves together material from so many disciplines."" - David Michael Levin, Northwestern University" Author InformationAllen S. Weiss is a writer, translator, and editor working in the fields of film studies, art history, philosophy, and psychoanalytic theory. He is an editor of Art & Text, and recently co-edited Psychosis and Sexual Identity: Toward a Post-Analytic View of the Schreber Case, published by SUNY Press Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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