The Moment: A History, Typology and Theory of the Moment in Philosophy and Literature: v. 1428 (European University Studies) - Softcover

Wägenbaur, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3631466501 ISBN 13: 9783631466506

Verlag: Peter Lang, 1993

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Written representations of momentary phenomena such as the Fall, the 'kairos', epiphany, the 'nunc stans', the sublime, dialectical and historical moments of change and moments of deferral are always doomed to fail. However, representational failures at writing have always been turned into a performative success: more writing. The author's reading of the various textualizations of the moment is not historical, but genealogical (Foucault) and not typological, but economical (Derrida); it reveals the moment as an inevitable trope: the deconstruction of a representational moment in a given text reinscribes this moment as the text's performative momentum. This ever shifting meaning of the moment has been followed through literary and philosophical texts from Plato to Beckett.

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Biografía del autor:

The Author: Thomas Waegenbaur was born in 1958 in Tuebingen. He has a M.A. in Comparative Literature from the UC/Berkeley and a Ph.D. from the UW/Seattle. Currently he teaches German and Comparative Literature at the University of Tuebingen. He has published several articles on the Ecology of Literature and the Ethnology of Literature.

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• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1993
• ISBN 10: 3631466501
• ISBN 13: 9783631466506
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 364