Writing of the Formless : : Jose Lezama Lima and the End of Time / / Jaime Rodríguez Matos.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Matos, Jaime Rodríguez,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Lit Z
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

In this book, Jaime Rodríguez Matos proposes the "formless" as a point of departure in thinking through the relationship between politics and time. Thinking through both literary and political writings around the Cuban Revolution, Rodríguez Matos explores the link between abstract symbolic procedures and various political experiments that have sought to give form to a principle of sovereignty based on the category of representation. In doing so, he proposes the formless as the limit of modern and contemporary reflections on the meaning of politics while exploring the philosophical consequences of a formless concept of temporality for the critique of metaphysics.Rodríguez Matos takes the writing and thought of José Lezama Lima as the guiding thread in exploring the possibility of a politicity in which time is imagined beyond the disciplining functions it has had throughout the metaphysical tradition-a time of the absence of time, in which the absence of time no longer means eternity.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. "Times" -- Part II. Writing of the Formless -- Conclusion: Godard, Lezama, and the End of Time(s) -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Sara Guyer and Brian McGrath, series editors