Against Abstraction : : Notes from an Ex-Latin Americanist / / Alberto Moreiras.
In 2015, members of the philosophy department at the University of Madrid conducted an interview with Alberto Moreiras for the university’s digital archive. The resulting dialogues and the Spanish edition of this work, Marranismo e inscripción, o el abandono de la conciencia desdichada, are the basi...
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Moreiras, Alberto, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Against Abstraction : Notes from an Ex-Latin Americanist / Alberto Moreiras. Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021] ©2020 1 online resource (248 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Border Hispanisms Frontmatter -- Contents -- A PRELIMINARY NOTE -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. Marranism and Inscript -- CHAPTER 2. My Life at Z: A Theoretical Fiction -- CHAPTER 3. The Fatality of (My) Subalternism -- CHAPTER 4. May I Kill a Narco? -- CHAPTER 5. The Turn of Deconstruction -- CHAPTER 6. We Have Good Reasons for This (and They Keep Coming): Revolutionary Drive and Democratic Desire -- CHAPTER 7. Time Out of Joint in Antonio Muñoz Molina’s La noche de los tiempos and Todo lo que era sólido -- CHAPTER 8. Ethos Daimon: The Improbable Imposture -- CHAPTER 9. A Conversation Regarding the Notion of Infrapolitics, and a Few Other Things -- Appendix. Marrano Religion: Javier Marías’s Los enamoramientos, and the Literary Secret -- NOTES -- WORKS CITED -- INDEX restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star In 2015, members of the philosophy department at the University of Madrid conducted an interview with Alberto Moreiras for the university’s digital archive. The resulting dialogues and the Spanish edition of this work, Marranismo e inscripción, o el abandono de la conciencia desdichada, are the basis for Against Abstraction, supplemented with an interview conducted for the Chilean journal Papel máquina. In these landmark conversations, Moreiras describes how, though he was initially committed to Latin American literary studies, he eventually transitioned to become an eminent scholar of critical theory, existential philosophy, and ultimately infrapolitics and posthegemony. Blending intellectual autobiography with a survey of Hispanism as practiced in universities in the United States (including the schisms in Latin American subaltern studies that eventually led to Moreiras’s departure from Duke University), these narratives read like a picaresque and a polemic on the symbolic power of scholars. Drawing on the concept of marranism (originally a term for Iberian Jews and Muslims forced to convert to Christianity during the Middle Ages) to consider the situations and allegiances he has navigated over the years, Moreiras has produced a multifaceted self-portrait that will surely spark further discourse. 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 27. Jan 2023) Critical theory. Deconstruction. Political science Philosophy. Sociology Philosophy. LITERARY CRITICISM / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2020 9783110745283 https://doi.org/10.7560/319826 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477319840 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477319840/original |
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