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The Philosophical Baroque: On Autopoietic Modernities

The Philosophical Baroque: On Autopoietic Modernities

Hardcover

PhilosophyLiterary Criticism

ISBN10: 9004323279
ISBN13: 9789004323278
Publisher: Brill
Published: Mar 23 2017
Pages: 296
Weight: 1.45
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
In his pioneering study The Philosophical Baroque: On Autopoietic Modernities, Erik S. Roraback argues that modern culture, contemplated over its four-century history, resembles nothing so much as the pearl famously described, by periodizers of old, as irregular, barroco. Reframing modernity as a multi-century baroque, Roraback steeps texts by Shakespeare, Henry James, Joyce, and Pynchon in systems theory and the ideas of philosophers of language and culture from Leibniz to such dynamic contemporaries as Luhmann, Benjamin, Blanchot, Deleuze and Guattari, Lacan, and Zizek. The resulting brew, high in intellectual caffeine, will be of value to all who take an interest in cultural modernity--indeed, all who recognize that modernity was (and remains) a congeries of competing aesthetic, economic, historical, ideological, philosophical, and political energies

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