The Delirium Of Praise
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The Delirium Of Praise
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Author : Eleanor Kaufman
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2003-05-01
The Delirium Of Praise written by Eleanor Kaufman and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-05-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
The laudatory essay, in which one author praises the work of another, is frequently characterized as an unimportant, even uncritical mode of writing. But as Eleanor Kaufman argues in The Delirium of Praise, this mode of exchange is serious and substantial enough to merit scholarly attention. By not conforming to standard practices of critical discourse, laudatory essays give new status to supposedly inferior forms of communication and states of being—including chatter, silence, sickness, imbalance, and absence of work—and emphasize affective states or emotions such as joy, friendship, and longing. The Delirium of Praise examines a group of five twentieth-century French intellectuals—Georges Bataille, Maurice Blanchot, Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, and Pierre Klossowski—and their laudatory essays about each other. Structured as a circular series of exchanges, the book examines pairings of two thinkers with respect to a given theme. The exchange between Bataille and Blanchot takes up the themes of chatter and silence with regard to the novelist Louis-René des Forêts; the Blanchot-Foucault exchange explores friendship and impersonality through the lens of Jacques Derrida; the Foucault-Deleuze exchange considers "absence of work" (désoeuvrement) and the obscure French philosopher Jacques Martin; the Deleuze-Klossowski exchange revolves around the question of the sick body and the person of Nietzsche; and the final exchange between Klossowski and Bataille focuses on imbalanced economies and the writings of the Marquis de Sade. Where the praise is most excessive, approaching delirium, Kaufman locates a powerful thought-energy that pushes the laudatory essay to its limits. In her conclusion, she presents this unique mode of thought exchange as a form of intellectual hospitality. Kaufman uncovers a suspension of subjectivity, of personality, even of place and time, that is both articulated in the laudatory essays and enacted by them. Her examination of this neglected mode as practiced by five important French thinkers offers a unique perspective on twentieth-century intellectual history.
Gilles Deleuze
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Author : Frida Beckman
language : en
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Release Date : 2017-06-15
Gilles Deleuze written by Frida Beckman and has been published by Reaktion Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Although less of a public figure than many of his contemporaries, philosopher Gilles Deleuze was an important leader of twentieth-century thought. His life and philosophy were bound up in numerous friendships, collaborations, and disputes with several of the period’s most influential thinkers—not to mention writers, artists, and filmmakers. In this book, Frida Beckman traces Deleuze’s remarkable intellectual journey, mapping the many rich encounters from which his life and work emerged. Beckman follows Deleuze from the salons of his early student years through his popularity as a young teacher to the extraordinarily productive phases of his philosophical work. She examines his life at the experimental University of Paris VIII and his friendships with people like Michel Foucault and Félix Guattari, and she considers how Deleuze’s philosophical developments resonate with historical, political, and philosophical events from World War II to the student uprisings in the 1960s to the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. Beckman ultimately highlights the ways that Deleuze’s legacy has influenced many branches of contemporary philosophy, offering a rich portrait of a contemporary philosopher who wrestled with some of philosophy’s most fundamental questions in fresh and necessary ways.
Training For Performance
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Author : John Matthews
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-06-01
Training For Performance written by John Matthews and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-01 with Performing Arts categories.
'Training for Performance is the first work of its kind; not in the sense that it addresses training for performance, but in that it invites a critical questioning of the imperatives and the rhetoric which govern academic and practical concerns for training alike.' Dr Martin Welton - Queen Mary University of London Training for Performance: a Meta-disciplinary Account is an innovative contribution to the field of work on contemporary actor and performer training. John Matthews introduces the concept of 'askeology' - a field of study that dissolves divisions between disciplines and their exercises - and identifies four meta-disciplinary categories in the process of training that are common to all institutional contexts: Vocation; Obedience; Formation and Automatisation. Through the exploration of contrasting accounts of training and the differing cultural politics within which they operate, Matthews provides a highly original and comprehensive approach to defining one of the most frequently used terms in theatre and performance studies. Training for Performance encourages performers to think afresh about how they understand and engage in their training and is an invaluable resource for any actor, student or professional interested in the process of performance.
Deleuze The Dark Precursor
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Author : Eleanor Kaufman
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2012-09-01
Deleuze The Dark Precursor written by Eleanor Kaufman and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
A thoughtful and original analysis of the writings of influential French philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Gilles Deleuze is considered one of the most important French philosophers of the twentieth century. Eleanor Kaufman situates Deleuze in relation to others of his generation, such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Pierre Klossowski, Maurice Blanchot, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, and she engages the provocative readings of Deleuze by Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek. Deleuze, The Dark Precursor is organized around three themes that critically overlap: dialectic, structure, and being. Kaufman argues that Deleuze's work is deeply concerned with these concepts, even when he advocates for the seemingly opposite notions of univocity, nonsense, and becoming. By drawing on scholastic thought and reading somewhat against the grain, Kaufman suggests that these often-maligned themes allow for a nuanced, even positive reflection on apparently negative states of being, such as extreme inertia. This attention to the negative or minor category has implications that extend beyond philosophy and into feminist theory, film, American studies, anthropology, and architecture.
Gilles Deleuze S Abcs
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Author : Charles J. Stivale
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2008-02-04
Gilles Deleuze S Abcs written by Charles J. Stivale and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-02-04 with Family & Relationships categories.
Stivale's analysis offers an intimate view into the thought of one of the greatest thinkers of our time.
Buddhism And Cultural Studies
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Author : Edwin Ng
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2016-06-30
Buddhism And Cultural Studies written by Edwin Ng and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-06-30 with Social Science categories.
This book explores the reciprocity between Buddhist, Derridean, and Foucauldian understandings about ethics, subjectivity, and ontological contingency, to investigate the ethical and political potential of insight meditation practice. The book is narrated from the perspective of a postcolonial ‘Western Buddhist’ convert who, despite growing up in Singapore where Buddhism was a part of his disaporic ‘Chinese’ ancestral heritage, only embraced Buddhism when he migrated to Australia and discovered Western translations of Buddhist teachings. Through an autoethnography of the author’s Buddhist-inspired pursuit of an academic profession, the book develops and professes a non-doctrinal understanding of faith that may be pertinent to ‘believers’ and ‘non-believers’ alike, inviting the academic reader in particular to consider the (unacknowledged) role of faith in supporting scholarly practice. Striking a careful balance between critical analysis and self-reflexive inquiry, the book performs in all senses of the word, a profession of faith.
Silence In Modern Literature And Philosophy
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Author : Thomas Gould
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-07-12
Silence In Modern Literature And Philosophy written by Thomas Gould and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-12 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book discusses the elusive centrality of silence in modern literature and philosophy, focusing on the writing and theory of Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes, the prose of Samuel Beckett, and the poetry of Wallace Stevens. It suggests that silence is best understood according to two categories: apophasis and reticence. Apophasis is associated with theology, and relates to a silence of ineffability and transcendence; reticence is associated with phenomenology, and relates to a silence of listenership and speechlessness. In a series of diverse though interrelated readings, the study examines figures of broken silence and silent voice in the prose of Samuel Beckett, the notion of shared silence in Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes, and ways in which the poetry of Wallace Stevens mounts lyrical negotiations with forms of unsayability and speechlessness.
Mad For Foucault
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Author : Lynne Huffer
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2010
Mad For Foucault written by Lynne Huffer and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Literary Criticism categories.
Contemporary critiques of sexuality have their origins in the work of Michel Foucault. While Foucault's seminal arguments helped to establish the foundations of queer theory and greatly advance feminist critique, Lynne Huffer argues that our interpretation of the theorist's powerful ideas remains flawed.
Erasmus Contarini And The Religious Republic Of Letters
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Author : Constance M. Furey
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2006
Erasmus Contarini And The Religious Republic Of Letters written by Constance M. Furey and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with History categories.
This 2005 book examines how the religious search for meaning shaped contemporary assumptions about friendship, gender, reading and writing.
Deleuze S Difference And Repetition
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Author : Joe Hughes
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2009-04-12
Deleuze S Difference And Repetition written by Joe Hughes and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-12 with Philosophy categories.
A Reader's Guide to arguably Deleuze's most demanding work and a key text in modern European thought.