Description: Please refer to the section BELOW (and NOT ABOVE) this line for the product details - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Title:Reiner Sch?Rmann And The Poetics Of PoliticsISBN13:9781947447738ISBN10:1947447734Author:Long, Christopher P. (Author)Description:Reiner Schurmann's Thinking Is, As He Himself Would Say, Riveted To A Monstrous Site It Remains Focused On And Situated Between Natality And Mortality, The Ultimate Traits That Condition Human Life This Book Traces The Contours Of Schurmann's Thinking In His Magnum Opus Broken Hegemonies In Order To Uncover The Possibility Of A Politics That Resists The Hegemonic Tendency To Posit Principles That Set The World And Our Relationships With One Another Into Violent Order Long's Book Follows In The Footsteps Of Oedipus Who, In Abject Recognition Of His Finitude, Stumbles Upon The Possibility Of Another Politics With The Help Of His Daughters At Colonus The Path Toward This Other, Collaboratively Created And Thus Poetic Politics Begins With An Encounter With Aristotle, A Thinker Whom Schurmann Most Frequently Read As The Founder Of Hegemonic Metaphysics, But Whose Thinking Reveals Itself As Alive To Beginnings In Ways That Open New Possibility For Human Community This Return To Beginnings Leads, In Turn, To Plotinus, Who Schurmann Reads As Marking The Destitution Of The Ancient Hegemony Of The Parmenidean Principle Of The One By Bringing Schurmann's Innovative And Compelling Reading Of Rene Char's Poem, The Shark And The Gull, Into Dialogue With Plotinus We Come To Encounter The Power Of Symbols To Transform Reality And Open Us To New Constellations Of Possible Community In Plotinus, Where We Expected To Encounter An End, We Experience A New Way Of Thinking Natality In Terms Of What Comes To Language In Char As The Nuptial Having Thus Been Awakened To The Power Of Symbols, We Are Prepared To Experience How In Kant Being Itself Comes To Expression As Plurivocal In A Way That Reveals Just How Pathologically Delusional It Is To Attempt To Deploy Univocal Principles In A Plurivocal World This Opens Us To What Schurmann Calls The Singularization To Come, A Formulation That Gestures To A Mode Of Comportment At Home In The Ravaged Site Between Natality And Mortality This Then Returns Us To Oedipus At Colonus; But Not To Him Alone Rather, It Points To The Relationship That Emerges For A Time Between Antigone, Ismene, And Oedipus, As They Navigate A Way Between Their Exile From Thebes And Oedipus's Final Resting Place Near Athens Here, Having Been Awakened To The Power Of A Poetic Politics, We Attend To Three Symbolic Moments Of Touching Between Oedipus And His Daughters Through Which We Might Discern Something Of The New Possibilities A Poetic Politics Opens For Us If We Settle Into The Ravaged Site That Conditions Our Existence, Together Binding:Paperback, PaperbackPublisher:Punctum BooksPublication Date:2018-09-28Weight:0.4 lbsDimensions:0.38'' H x 7.99'' L x 5'' WNumber of Pages:176Language:English
Price: 20.69 USD
Location: USA
End Time: 2024-11-22T04:04:54.000Z
Shipping Cost: 0 USD
Product Images
Item Specifics
Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 30 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Return policy details:
Book Title: Reiner Sch?Rmann And The Poetics Of Politics
Item Length: 8in.
Item Height: 0.4in.
Item Width: 5in.
Author: Christopher P. Long
Publication Name: Reiner Schürmann and the Poetics of Politics
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Punctum Books
Publication Year: 2018
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 6.4 Oz
Number of Pages: 176 Pages
