An excellent piece of work offering a wealth of new insights. The author makes sense of more of the significant internal contradictions in the Nietzschean text than any previous commentator has done.
Along the way, Techne Theory cuts through the humanist-structuralist impasse over the question of artistic agency and explains what 'form' really means.
This book examines Aristotle, Kant, and especially Heusserl to bring to light Derrida's development of the classical philosophical concepts of form, verbal formula, the object-in-general, and time.
Explains how, under the influence of the new ''mental materialism'' that held sway in mid-Victorian scientific and medical thought, the Bront1/2s and George Eliot in their greatest novels broached a radical new form of novelistic moral ...
Then, in readings of the Gospel of John, Dante, the troubadours, Petrarch, Hamlet, Paradise Lost, La Princess de Cleves, and Heart of Darkness, Staten shows how literary history may be reconstituted in terms of a poetics of mourning that ...
This book explains how, under the influence of the new 'mental materialism' that held sway in mid-Victorian scientific and medical thought, the BrontƱs and George Eliot in their greatest novels broached a radical new form of novelistic ...