Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination: Spinoza, Blake, Hugo, Joyce
Autor Professor Patrick McGeeen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 mar 2018
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781501341236
ISBN-10: 1501341235
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:NIPPOD
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1501341235
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Ediția:NIPPOD
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Caracteristici
Original readings of four authors who have contributed to a view of human nature that constitutes an alternative to the dominant view of the last three centuries
Notă biografică
Patrick McGee is Professor Emeritus of English at Louisiana State University, USA. He currently lives in Seattle, Washington, where he continues his research and writing. He is the author of eight books, including Cinema, Theory and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture (1997), Joyce beyond Marx: History and Desire in "Ulysses" and "Finnegans Wake" (2001), and Theory and the Common from Marx to Badiou (2009).
Cuprins
PrefaceChapter 1. The Power of Thought, or Spinoza after Negri and Badiou Chapter 2. Imagination as Thought in Blake's Milton Chapter 3. The Savage God of Hugo's Les Misérables Chapter 4. The Amorous Production of Being in Joyce's Ulysses ConclusionBibliographyIndex
Recenzii
This is a wonderfully wide-ranging book, as the title suggests . McGee [provides] astonishing perceptions about Blake's poem and his images. This is true of the Hugo and Joyce chapters, too. This book defies categories and would not seem to fit into a specific course of study, until you realize that it offers a course of study all its own. I would happily sit with a group of graduate students, or indeed advanced undergraduates, and work through these ideas. The results might very well be life-changing.
Reading a really fine critical study should be a process of having your expectations dashed . Patrick McGee's Political Monsters displaced a number of my deeply-rooted beliefs, and the book is of such scope and intellectual power that it competes with the highest level of criticism . An astonishing accomplishment.
'There is no such thing as a conservative thought.' Thus opens this brilliant, pathbreaking work, one of the very first to grasp the full significance of Spinoza's 'democratic ontology' for western literature. Spinoza has returned in force in recent years, as the rebel philosopher who inspired Deleuze, much post-Marxist critique, and, not least, the 'New Materialists' and the most exciting of the new environmental criticism. Here Patrick McGee, who ever since his first book Paperspace has always proven himself an original thinker, ambitiously reads Spinoza through the lens of Negri and Badiou. He then offers brilliant new interpretations of visionary epics by Blake, Hugo and Joyce as Spinozists for whom thought, change and matter are almost one. McGee limns in a new way how these writers can champion democratic change. Clear, well-argued, profound: this is an exciting thought-experiment, a book to shift the debates on literature's power.
An important contribution to literary studies, Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination asks a number of crucial questions: can literature help us undo centuries of thinking about the subject and the world in which the subject moves? McGee engages the work of Baruch Spinoza and contemporary philosophers such as Antonio Negri and Alain Badiou in order to show how William Blake, Victor Hugo and James Joyce challenge the sovereignty of that subject and the regime of truth that supports it. By showing how these writers exemplify Spinoza's ontology of immanence, which knits the individual to a world of ideas and thoughts beyond her, McGee reveals that they were already part of the transindividual singularity that we might call 'literature and theory.'
Reading a really fine critical study should be a process of having your expectations dashed . Patrick McGee's Political Monsters displaced a number of my deeply-rooted beliefs, and the book is of such scope and intellectual power that it competes with the highest level of criticism . An astonishing accomplishment.
'There is no such thing as a conservative thought.' Thus opens this brilliant, pathbreaking work, one of the very first to grasp the full significance of Spinoza's 'democratic ontology' for western literature. Spinoza has returned in force in recent years, as the rebel philosopher who inspired Deleuze, much post-Marxist critique, and, not least, the 'New Materialists' and the most exciting of the new environmental criticism. Here Patrick McGee, who ever since his first book Paperspace has always proven himself an original thinker, ambitiously reads Spinoza through the lens of Negri and Badiou. He then offers brilliant new interpretations of visionary epics by Blake, Hugo and Joyce as Spinozists for whom thought, change and matter are almost one. McGee limns in a new way how these writers can champion democratic change. Clear, well-argued, profound: this is an exciting thought-experiment, a book to shift the debates on literature's power.
An important contribution to literary studies, Political Monsters and Democratic Imagination asks a number of crucial questions: can literature help us undo centuries of thinking about the subject and the world in which the subject moves? McGee engages the work of Baruch Spinoza and contemporary philosophers such as Antonio Negri and Alain Badiou in order to show how William Blake, Victor Hugo and James Joyce challenge the sovereignty of that subject and the regime of truth that supports it. By showing how these writers exemplify Spinoza's ontology of immanence, which knits the individual to a world of ideas and thoughts beyond her, McGee reveals that they were already part of the transindividual singularity that we might call 'literature and theory.'