In the Place of Language : : Literature and the Architecture of the Referent / / Claudia Brodsky.
The "place" in the title of Claudia Brodsky's remarkable new book is the intersection of language with building, the marking, for future reference, of material constructions in the world. The "referent" Brodsky describes is not something first found in nature and then named...
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Brodsky, Claudia, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut In the Place of Language : Literature and the Architecture of the Referent / Claudia Brodsky. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2009] ©2009 1 online resource (192 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface. Marked Change: A Brief Account -- INTRODUCTION. Signs of Place -- 1. Referent and Annihilation: ‘‘X’’ Marks the Spot -- 2. Theory of Appropriation: Rousseau, Schmitt, and Kant -- 3. ‘‘Sovereignty’’ over Language: Of Lice and Men -- 4. Goethe after Lanzmann: Literature Represents ‘‘X’’ -- PART I. Goethe’s Timelessness -- 1. Faust’s Building: Theory as Practice -- 2. Faust’s and Heidegger’s Technology: Building as Poiesis -- 3. In the Place of Language -- 4. ‘‘Time Refound’’ -- PART II. Built Time -- 1. Building, Story, and Image -- 2. Benjamin’s and Goethe’s Passagen: Ottilie under Glass -- 3. Nature in Pieces -- 4. ‘‘Superfluous Stones’’ -- 5. ‘‘Stones for Thought’’ -- 6. Kant’s and Goethe’s Schatzkammer: Buried Time -- AFTERWORD. Gravity: Metaphysics of the Referent -- Appendix. Continuation of Notes -- Bibliography restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The "place" in the title of Claudia Brodsky's remarkable new book is the intersection of language with building, the marking, for future reference, of material constructions in the world. The "referent" Brodsky describes is not something first found in nature and then named but a thing whose own origin joins language with materiality, a thing marked as it is made to begin with. In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent develops a theory of the "referent" that is thus also a theory of the possibility of historical knowledge, one that undermines the conventional opposition of language to the real by theories of nominalism and materialism alike, no less than it confronts the mystical conflation of language with matter, whether under the aegis of the infinite reproducibility of the image or the identification of language with "Being."Challenging these equally naive views of language - as essentially immaterial or the only essential matter - Brodsky investigates the interaction of language with the material that literature represents. For literature, Brodsky argues, seeks no refuge from its own inherently iterable, discursive medium in dreams of a technologically-induced freedom from history or an ontological history of language-being. Instead it tells the complex story of historical referents constructed and forgotten, things built into the earth upon which history "takes place" and of which, in the course of history, all visible trace is temporarily effaced. Literature represents the making of history, the building and burial of the referent, the present world of its oblivion and the future of its unearthing, and it can do this because, unlike the historical referent, it literally takes no place, is not tied to any building or performance in space. For the same reason literature can reveal the historical nature of the making of meaning, demonstrating that the shaping and experience of the real, the marking of matter that constitutes historical referents, also defers knowledge of the real to a later date. Through close readings of central texts by Goethe, Plato, Kant, Heidegger, and Benjamin, redefined by the interrelationship of building and language they represent, In the Place of Language analyzes what remains of actions that attempt to take the place of language: the enduring, if intermittently obscured bases, of theoretical reflection itself. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) Literature Philosophy. Reference (Linguistics). Reference (Philosophy). Semiotics and literature. Literary Studies. Philosophy & Theory. LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783111189604 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110707298 print 9780823230006 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823237753?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823237753 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823237753/original |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface. Marked Change: A Brief Account -- INTRODUCTION. Signs of Place -- 1. Referent and Annihilation: ‘‘X’’ Marks the Spot -- 2. Theory of Appropriation: Rousseau, Schmitt, and Kant -- 3. ‘‘Sovereignty’’ over Language: Of Lice and Men -- 4. Goethe after Lanzmann: Literature Represents ‘‘X’’ -- PART I. Goethe’s Timelessness -- 1. Faust’s Building: Theory as Practice -- 2. Faust’s and Heidegger’s Technology: Building as Poiesis -- 3. In the Place of Language -- 4. ‘‘Time Refound’’ -- PART II. Built Time -- 1. Building, Story, and Image -- 2. Benjamin’s and Goethe’s Passagen: Ottilie under Glass -- 3. Nature in Pieces -- 4. ‘‘Superfluous Stones’’ -- 5. ‘‘Stones for Thought’’ -- 6. Kant’s and Goethe’s Schatzkammer: Buried Time -- AFTERWORD. Gravity: Metaphysics of the Referent -- Appendix. Continuation of Notes -- Bibliography |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface. Marked Change: A Brief Account -- INTRODUCTION. Signs of Place -- 1. Referent and Annihilation: ‘‘X’’ Marks the Spot -- 2. Theory of Appropriation: Rousseau, Schmitt, and Kant -- 3. ‘‘Sovereignty’’ over Language: Of Lice and Men -- 4. Goethe after Lanzmann: Literature Represents ‘‘X’’ -- PART I. Goethe’s Timelessness -- 1. Faust’s Building: Theory as Practice -- 2. Faust’s and Heidegger’s Technology: Building as Poiesis -- 3. In the Place of Language -- 4. ‘‘Time Refound’’ -- PART II. Built Time -- 1. Building, Story, and Image -- 2. Benjamin’s and Goethe’s Passagen: Ottilie under Glass -- 3. Nature in Pieces -- 4. ‘‘Superfluous Stones’’ -- 5. ‘‘Stones for Thought’’ -- 6. Kant’s and Goethe’s Schatzkammer: Buried Time -- AFTERWORD. Gravity: Metaphysics of the Referent -- Appendix. Continuation of Notes -- Bibliography |
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