The Poetics of Singularity : : The Counter-Culturalist Turn in Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and the later Gadamer / / Timothy Clark.

This polemical book reveals the basic tenets of what may be called a 'poetics of singularity' in Martin Heidegger, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida and the strange late essays of Hans Georg Gadamer.At issue is the at first simple, even familiar, idea that literary or poetic 'meaning&...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2005
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:The Frontiers of Theory : FRTH
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Physical Description:1 online resource (208 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: a school of singularity?
  • Chapter 1. Freedoms and the institutional Americanism of literary study
  • Chapter 2. Heidegger's dream of singularisation
  • Chapter 3. The uniquely obvious: singularity in Gadamer's late essays
  • Chapter 4. Pitching strangely: the poetic Blanchet
  • Chapter 5. Derrida: a pragmatics of singularity
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Index