Name: Infant Figures: The Death of the Infans< (en Inglés)
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Author: Christopher Fynsk
ISBN: 9780804734080

portada Infant Figures: The Death of the <I>Infans< (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Stanford University Press

Autor

Christopher Fynsk

Año

2000

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

220

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

0804734089

ISBN13

9780804734080

N° edición

Categorías

Lingüísticas

Infant Figures: The Death of the <I>Infans< (en Inglés)

Christopher Fynsk (Autor) · Stanford University Press · Tapa Blanda

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This volume juxtaposes philosophical and psychoanalytic speculation with literary and artistic commentary in order to approach a set of questions concerning the human relation to language, a relation that cannot be taken as an "object" of critical or philosophical reflection in the traditional manner. Exploring the exigencies of figuring this relation at the limits of language, the multifold writing of this volume takes the form of a "triptych" (following the model of works by Francis Bacon) rather than that of a thesis. The central (and organizing) section of the volume contains an extended dialogue on two textual passages portraying versions of what the author describes as "the death of the infans." With the strange resonance of the "primal" or the "originary," these two scenes from works by Maurice Blanchot and Jacques Lacan invite a reflection on the mortal exposure that marks the human share in the advent of language, an exposure whose figuration is necessary to any speech or conscious life. The dialogue explores the ethical and philosophical issues that surface in a practice of writing (a "pragmatics") that engages this necessary figuration, and thus the limits of language. The latter issues are also explored in a brief essay on Antigone that concludes the dialogical fiction. The first and third parts of the volume's triptych address artistic projects that realize in their respective ways a pragmatics like that of the central section. The first part focuses on the work of Francis Bacon, taking the motif of crucifixion as a path toward understanding his violent realism. This essay is prefaced by a consideration of the notion of cruelty to which Nietzsche appeals in The Genealogy of Morals. The third part, which juxtaposes a dialogue with a critical essay, concerns the work of Salvatore Puglia. Through Bacon and Puglia, the author seeks another approach to a figural imperative at the limits of language.