The rhetoric of failure : deconstruction of skepticism, reinvention of modernism - Ziarek, Ewa Płonowska, 1961- (Albany : State University of New York Press, 1996)
1. Introduction : Deconstruction of skepticism, reinvention of modernism -- 2. Stanley Cavell and the economy of skepticism: Cavell reading Wittgenstein : linguistic games and the threat of skepticism ; Revision of skepticism : acknowledgment, community and the aesthetics of ordinary speech ; Moments of excess : alterity, metaphor, modernism -- 3. Rhetoric of failure and deconstruction: Unmasking deconstruction :skepticism in disguise? ; Levinas and Derrida : skepticism and the signification of alterity ; Community and communication ; "Hear say yes" : rhetoric, skepticism, modernism -- 4. "The beauty of failure" : Kafka and Benjamin on the task of transmission and translation: "On parables" : exemplarity, transmissibility, figuration ; "The pit of Babel" : translation as the limit of formalism and of linguistic community ; "The ground under our feet" : "The great wall of China" -- 5. The paratactic prose of Samuel Beckett : How it is: The remains of aesthetics : failure, task, obligation ; Impossible invention : aesthetics and the signification of alterity ; Inventions of the possible : Beckett's couples and nightmare of communicative reason ; "The inevitable number" : calculation, community and the divine -- 6. Witold Gombrowicz : forms of life as disfigurement: Rethinking the parameters of modern aesthetics : form, "immaturity," "the interhuman" ; Between philosophy and art : the double articulation of form in Cosmos.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Keywords: Deconstruction; Postmodernism; Ethics, Modern -- 20th century; Aesthetics, Modern -- 20th century; Skepticism; Ethics, Modern; Aesthetics, Modern; Deconstructivism (Architecture); Déconstruction.; Postmodernisme; Morale -- 20e siècle.; Esthétique -- 20e siècle.; Scepticisme; Déconstructivisme (Architecture); Deconstructivist; deconstruction (theory); PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Deconstruction; PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- General; Aesthetics, Modern; Deconstruction; Ethics, Modern; Postmodernism; Skepticism; 1900-1999