The philosophical baroque : on autopoietic modernities /

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Author / Creator:	Roraback, Erik S. (Erik Sherman), author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
Description:	1 online resource.
Language:	English
Series:	Literary modernism ; volume 2 Literary modernism (Leiden) ; v. 2.
Subject:	Modernism (Literature) Modernism (Aesthetics) Civilization, Modern. Civilization, Modern. Modernism (Aesthetics) Modernism (Literature) Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11910916

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ISBN:	9789004339859 900433985X 9789004323278 9004323279
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 04, 2017).
Summary:	In his pioneering study The Philosophical Baroque: On Autopoietic Modernities , Erik S. Roraback argues that modern culture, contemplated over its four-century history, resembles nothing so much as the pearl famously described, by periodizers of old, as irregular, barroco . Reframing modernity as a multi-century baroque, Roraback steeps texts by Shakespeare, Henry James, Joyce, and Pynchon in systems theory and the ideas of philosophers of language and culture from Leibniz to such dynamic contemporaries as Luhmann, Benjamin, Blanchot, Deleuze and Guattari, Lacan, and Žižek. The resulting brew, high in intellectual caffeine, will be of value to all who take an interest in cultural modernity--indeed, all who recognize that "modernity" was (and remains) a congeries of competing aesthetic, economic, historical, ideological, philosophical, and political energies.
Other form:	Print version: Roraback, Erik S. (Erik Sherman). Philosophical baroque. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2017 9789004323278
Standard no.:	10.1163/9789004339859.

Table of Contents:

Preliminary Material
Introduction: Re-Framing Modernity
Luhmann and Autopoietic Forms of the (Neo) Baroque Modern: Or, Structure, System, and Contingency
Folds of Desire's (Dis)contents: Orson Welles, Lacan, and Shakespeare's King Lear (c. 1606)
The Monad of Deleuze's Many-Tiered High Baroque Leibniz
Folds of an Autopoietic and Unconscious Monad: Henry James, Benjamin, and Blanchot
(Neo) Baroque Intersections: Finnegans Wake (1939), Gravity's Rainbow (1973), and L'Écriture du désastre (The Writing of the Disaster) (1980)
Neobaroque Fingerprints: Artistic Authority, Interpretation, and Economic Power/Un-power of Finnegans Wake
Deleuze's Le pli: Leibniz et le baroque (The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque) (1988) with Joyce's "stohong baroque" Finnegans Wake
Autopoietic Baroque Energies: Finnegans Wake
Folding Blanchot onto Pynchon: Enlightenment Reason, the Global Technical System, and World Citizenship
Catastrophe, Allegory, and the Philosophical Baroque: A Quartet of Benjamin-Lacan and Joyce-Pynchon
Conclusions
Select Bibliography
Index of Premodern and Modern Authors
Index of Sources
Index of Names and Subjects.

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