The Geschlecht Complex Addressing Untranslatable Aspects of Gender Genre and Ontology
The notion of Geschlecht-denoting gender, genre, kinship, kind, species, and more-exemplifies the most pertinent questions of the transnational and transdisciplinary structures of contemporary humanities: What happens when texts, things, and concepts are transferred or displaced from one language, tradition, or form to another? What is readily transposed, what is resistant to move, and what emerges as new?
Drawing on Barbara Cassin's philosophy of untranslatability, scholars contributing to The Geschlecht Complex examine old queries into the ontological powers of naming in connection with concerns central to contemporary humanistic thought. Combining detailed case studies of concrete "category problems" in literature, philosophy, theatre, media, cinema, and performing arts with excerpts from canonical texts-by notable, field-defining thinkers such as Derrida, Malabou, Nancy, and Irigaray-the volume presents "the Geschlecht complex" as a fulcrum for any interpretive endeavor, as an invaluable mode of thought for the present and inevitable complexities of theorizing in the 21st century.Publisher Name | Bloomsbury Academic |
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Author Name | Hagendorf, Col |
Format | Audio |
Bisac Subject Major | LIT |
Language | NG |
Isbn 10 | 150138192X |
Isbn 13 | 9781501381928 |
Target Age Group | min:NA, max:NA |
Dimensions | 00.00" H x 00.00" L x 00.00" W |
Page Count | 304 |
David LaRocca is an independent scholar based in Ithaca, USA. He is the author, editor, or coeditor of twelve books, including Emerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor (Bloomsbury, 2013), The Bloomsbury Anthology of Transcendental Thought (2017), and Inheriting Stanley Cavell (2020). Formerly Harvard's Sinclair Kennedy Fellow in the United Kingdom, and a participant in an NEH Institute and the School of Criticism and Theory, he has held visiting research and teaching positions at Binghamton, Cornell, Cortland, Harvard, Ithaca College, the School of Visual Arts, and Vanderbilt. www.DavidLaRocca.org