Chow / Grewal / Kaplan The Age of the World Target

Self-Referentiality in War, Theory, and Comparative Work
1. Auflage 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8758-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 140 Seiten

Reihe: Next Wave Provocations

An exploration of the theoretical and political consequences of the post-Enlightenment “self” and of the concept of self-referentiality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chow, Rey

Grewal, Inderpal

Kaplan, Caren

Wiegman, Robyn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

Introduction. European Theory in America 1

I. The Age of the World Target: Atomic Bombs, Alterity, Area Studies 25

II. The Interruption of Referentiality: or, Poststructuralism's Outside 45

III. The Old/New Question of Comparison in Literary Studies: A Post-European Perspective 71

Notes 93

Index 117

Über Autor(innen)

Rey Chow is Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities and Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She is the author of several books, including The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism; Ethics after Idealism: Theory-Culture-Ethnicity-Reading; and Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema, which won the Modern Language Association’s James Russell Lowell Prize. She is the editor of Modern Chinese Literary and Cultural Studies in the Age of Theory: Reimagining a Field, also published by Duke University Press. She is a coeditor of the Duke University Press book series Asia-Pacific.