Weakness a literary and philosophical history
"Examining the nature of weakness has inspired some of the most influential aesthetic and philosophical portraits of the human condition. By reading a selection of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Michael O'Sullivan charts a history of responses to the experience and exploration...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Continuum
[2012]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Continuum literary studies. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35571858*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Part One. Philosophy. 1. Fragile goodness and weakness of the will
- 2. "Weakness is the means dao employs": daoism and weakness
- 3. The flesh is weak: incarnating the word
- 4. Nietzsche's revaluation of power and Kierkegaard's despair of weakness
- 5. Why is Derrida's sign violent? grammatology and a "force of weakness"
- 6. Is there a "weaker vessel?": reshaping "phallic identity" with "womb vision"
- Part Two. Literature. 7. Recognizing limits: Keats's "weak mortality" and Wordsworth's "frailties of the world"
- 8. A sentimental man: Dickens, involuntary narration and the "experience of the common"
- 9. "Words of silent power": Joyce, kindness and life's "high carnage of semperidentity"
- 10. Beckett and "the authentic weakness of being"
- 11. Vulnerability, narrative authority and "the animal" in the work of J.M. Coetzee
- Conclusion: humane weakness.
