Odysseys of Recognition : : Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Kleist / / Ellwood Wiggins.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2019 English
• VerfasserIn: Wiggins, Ellwood,
• Place / Publishing House: Lewisburg, PA : : Bucknell University Press, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: New Studies in the Age of Goethe
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (298 p.) :; 2 tables
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; Overview of Contents --; Abbreviations --; A Note on Translations and Orthography --; Introduction: Performing Recognition --; Part I. Marking the Limits of Recognition: Between Aristotle and the Odyssey --; Introduction --; CHAPTER ONE. "Just as the Name Itself Signifies": Under the Sign of Nostalgia --; CHAPTER TWO. "Recognition Is a Change": Performance in Motion --; CHAPTER THREE. "From Ignorance to Knowledge": Penelope's Poetological Epistemology --; CHAPTER FOUR. "Into Friendship or Enmity": An Ethics of Authentic Deception --; CHAPTER FIVE. "For Those Bound for Good or Bad Fortune": Casualties of Recognition --; Part II. Outing Interiority: Modern Recognitions --; CHAPTER SIX. Self-Knowledge between Plato and Shakespeare: Alcibiades I and Troilus and Cressida --; CHAPTER SEVEN. Metamorphoses of Recognition: Goethe's "Fortunate Event" --; CHAPTER EIGHT. Epistemologies of Recognition: Goethe's Iphigenie auf Tauris and the Spectacle of Catharsis --; CHAPTER NINE. Politics of Recognition: Friends, Enemies, and Goethe's Iphigenie --; CHAPTER TEN. The Fate of Recognition: Kleist's Penthesilea --; Concluding Reflections: Signifying Silence in Blumenberg and Kafka --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index --; ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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• ISBN: 9781684480418; 9783110610765; 9783110664232; 9783110610369; 9783110606348; 9783110653526
• DOI: 10.36019/9781684480418?locatt=mode:legacy
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• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Ellwood Wiggins.

Literary recognition is a technical term for a climactic plot device. Odysseys of Recognition claims that interpersonal recognition is constituted by performance, and brings performance theory into dialogue with poetics, politics, and philosophy. By observing Odysseus figures from Homer to Kleist, Ellwood Wiggins offers an alternative to conventional intellectual histories that situate the invention of the interior self in modernity. Through strategic readings of Aristotle, this elegantly written, innovative study recovers an understanding of interpersonal recognition that has become strange and counterintuitive. Penelope in Homer's Odyssey offers a model for agency in ethical knowledge that has a lot to teach us today. Early modern and eighteenth-century characters, meanwhile, discover themselves not deep within an impenetrable self, but in the interpersonal space between people in the world. Recognition, Wiggins contends, is the moment in which epistemology and ethics coincide: in which what we know becomes manifest in what we do. Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.