Michaels The Shape of the Signifier

1967 to the End of History
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4959-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Walter Benn Michaels is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism and Our America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Michaels, Walter Benn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: The Blank Page 1

One: Posthistoricism 19

The End of History 19

Political Science Fictions 26

Partez au vert/Go on the green 41

The Shape of the Signifier 51

The End of Theory 66

Two: Prehistoricism 82

rocks 82

and stones 105

and trees 118

Three: Historicism 129

Remembering 129

Reliving 140

Dismembering 149

Forgetting 158

Coda: Empires of the Senseless 169

Notes 183

Index 213

Über Autor(innen)

Walter Benn Michaels is Professor of English at the University of Illinois, Chicago. He is the author of The Gold Standard and the Logic of Naturalism and Our America.