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9780391037984

Poetics of Modernity

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    9780391037984

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    0391037986

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 1995-05-01
  • Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Surplus Being: The Kantian Legacyp. 2
The Poetics of Authorship: Kierkegaard's Dilemmap. 18
Heidegger's Poetics of the Possiblep. 35
Heidegger's Godsp. 50
Ideology and Utopia: The Social Imaginary (Ricoeur I)p. 66
Hermeneutics of Myth and Tradition (Ricoeur II)p. 80
The Narrative Imagination: Between Poetics and Ethics (Ricoeur III)p. 92
Levinas and the Ethics of Imaginingp. 108
Ethics and the Right to Resist: Patocka's Testimonyp. 118
Myth and Sacrificial Scapegoats: On Rene Girardp. 136
Derrida's Ethical Returnp. 148
Derrida's Ethics of Dialoguep. 168
Myths of Utopia and Ideology: From Yeats to Joycep. 180
Postmodern Mirrors of Fiction: Rushdie, Wolfe, and Kunderap. 185
Painting and Postmodernityp. 194
Postscriptp. 203
Notesp. 211
Indexp. 249
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