On Spectrality : Fantasies of Redemption in the Western Canon
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0820481300
ISBN-13
9780820481302
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
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Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Dec 8th, 2005
Print length
163 Pages
Weight
396 grams
Dimensions
15.80 x 23.60 x 1.50 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: generalLiterary studies: c 1500 to c 1800
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In this bold and highly original work, David Ratmoko offers an analysis of haunting in the history of European literature, law, and politics, in the wake of Derrida’s notion of ‘spectrality’. Interested in figures of redemption from guilt, he traces the rise of canonical literature through the history of an encryption or transcoding that has produced such fantastic compromises as Exodus, Greek tragedy, Dante’s Comedia, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet as well as the conversion into capitalism. Addressing the issue of ghosts through our modern crisis of legitimacy, as raised by Benjamin, Schmitt, and Kafka, Ratmoko explores Freud’s idea of traumatic fantasy in its capacity of driving the progress of spirituality or spectrality in the Judeo-Christian world.
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