On spectrality fantasies of redemption in the Western canon
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 th...
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| Formato: | Tesis |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York [etc.] :
Peter Lang
2006
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| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b40737834*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Pt. 1. Spectral history of guilt in Law
- Modernity's guilt by default
- The specter of Roman law
- Spectral violence in justifying law
- Pt. 2. Historical truth of spectrality
- Progress of spectrality in Freud's Moses
- Foreclosure and the return of the pharaoh
- Toward a Freudian model of history
- Pt. 3. Spectrality in the Christian and tragic era
- Ghostly transfigurations in Christianity
- Staging spectrality in Greek tragedy
- Pt. 4. Phantom formations after the Renaissance
- Shakespeare's stage ghost
- From the evil demon to Cartesian certitude
- Epic resources of Pandemonium
- Conversions into capital
