In the Place of Language : : Literature and the Architecture of the Referent /

In the Place of Language : : Literature and the Architecture of the Referent / / Claudia Brodsky.

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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,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (192 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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