| Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness Contributor(s): Goodhart, Sandor (Author), Fleming, Chris (Editor), Hodge, Joel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1501350811 ISBN-13: 9781501350818 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $49.45 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Philosophy - Philosophy | Metaphysics - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory |
| Dewey: 801.95 |
| Series: Violence, Desire, and the Sacred |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6" W x 9" (1.02 lbs) 352 pages |
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| Publisher Description: "I died at Auschwitz," French writer Charlotte Delbo asserts, "and nobody knows it." Möbian Nights: Reading Literature and Darkness develops a new understanding of literary reading: that in the wake of disasters like the Holocaust, death remains a premise of our experience rather than a future. Challenging customary "aesthetic" assumptions that we write in order not to die, Sandor Goodhart suggests (with Kafka) we write to die. Drawing upon analyses developed by Girard, Foucault, Blanchot, and Levinas (along with examples from Homer to Beckett), Möbian Nights proposes that all literature works "autobiographically", which is to say, in the wake of disaster; with the credo "I died; therefore, I am"; and for which the language of topology (for example, the "Möbius strip") offers a vocabulary for naming the "deep structure" of such literary, critical, and scriptural sacrificial and anti-sacrificial dynamics. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cowdell, Scott: - Scott Cowdell is Research Associate Professor in the Centre for Public and Contextual Theology at Charles Sturt University, Australia, Canon Theologian of the Canberra-Goulburn Anglican Diocese, and Founding President of the Australian Girard Seminar.Fleming, Chris: - Chris Fleming is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Anthropology, School of Humanities and Languages, the University of Western Sydney, Australia. His is the author of Violence and Mimesis (2004) and is current Vice-President of the Australian Girard Seminar.Hodge, Joel: - Joel Hodge is Lecturer in Systematic Theology, School of Theology, Australian Catholic University, Australia. He is the author of Resisting Violence and Victimisation: Christian Faith and Solidarity in East Timor (2012) and is current Treasurer and Secretary of the Australian Girard Seminar.Goodhart, Sandor: - Sandor Goodhart is Professor of English and Jewish Studies at Purdue University, USA. He is the author of editor of five books, including The Prophetic Law. Essays in Judaism, Girardianism, Literary Studies, and the Ethical (Michigan State University Press, 2014), Sacrifice, Scripture, and Substitution: Readings in Ancient Judaism and Christianity (co-edited with Ann Astell; Notre Dame University Press, 2011) and For René Girard. Essays in Friendship and Truth (co-edited with Jørgen Jørgenson, Tom Ryba, and James G. Williams; Michigan State University Press, 2009). |
