Scenarios of the Imaginary : : Theorizing the French Enlightenment / / Josue V. Harari.
From Proust to Beckett, from Blanchot to Derrida from Freud to Lacan, and from Lévi-Strauss to René Girard, all of our theories of modernity have been predicated upon a nostalgia for the real. In this lively and perceptive diagnosis of the malaise of contemporary theorists, Josué Harari interprets t...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Nostalgia and Critical Theory
- 1. Transcoding
- 2. Eclectic Affinities: Imaginary/ Theory/ Reality
- 3. The Eunuch's Tale: Montesquieu's Imaginary of Despotism
- 4. Man Born of Man: Rousseau's Pedagogical Imaginary
- 5. Staging the Libertine Imaginary I: The Theoretical Scenario
- 6. Staging the Libertine Imaginary II: Personal and Fictional Scenarios
- 7. "You Are Requested to Close the Eyes": Out of the Barbershop, into the Academie Franchise
- Postscript: Anguish
- Bibliography
- Name Index
- Subject Index