Weakness :: a literary and philosophical history /
"Examining the nature of weakness has inspired some of the most influential aesthetic and philosophical portraits of the human condition. By reading a selection of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Michael O'Sullivan charts a history of responses to the experience and exploration...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "Examining the nature of weakness has inspired some of the most influential aesthetic and philosophical portraits of the human condition. By reading a selection of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Michael O'Sullivan charts a history of responses to the experience and exploration of weakness. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, this first book-length study of the concept explores weakness as it is interpreted by Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, Derrida, the Romantics, Dickens and the Modernists. It examines what feminist writers Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray have made of the gendered biomythology constructed around the figure of the 'weaker vessel' and it considers related notions such as im-potentiality, a 'syntax of weakness' and human vulnerability in the work of Agamben, Beckett and Coetzee. Through analysis of these differing versions of weakness, O'Sullivan's study challenges the popular myth that aligns masculine identity with strength and force and presents a humane weakness as a guiding motif for debates in ethics"--Provided by publisher. |
| Beschreibung: | 1 online resource (214 pages.) |
| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441195647 1441195645 9781441178794 1441178791 9781441162991 1441162992 9786613625793 6613625795 |
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| contents | Introduction -- Part One. Philosophy. 1. Fragile goodness and weakness of the will -- 2. "Weakness is the means dao employs": daoism and weakness -- 3. The flesh is weak: incarnating the word -- 4. Nietzsche's revaluation of power and Kierkegaard's despair of weakness -- 5. Why is Derrida's sign violent? grammatology and a "force of weakness" -- 6. Is there a "weaker vessel?": reshaping "phallic identity" with "womb vision" -- Part Two. Literature. 7. Recognizing limits: Keats's "weak mortality" and Wordsworth's "frailties of the world" -- 8. A sentimental man: Dickens, involuntary narration and the "experience of the common" -- 9. "Words of silent power": Joyce, kindness and life's "high carnage of semperidentity" -- 10. Beckett and "the authentic weakness of being" -- 11. Vulnerability, narrative authority and "the animal" in the work of J.M. Coetzee -- Conclusion: humane weakness. |
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| spelling | O'Sullivan, Michael, 1974- author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJxWT4YCfXgBx8wK6r9MT3 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2007030503 Weakness : a literary and philosophical history / Michael O'Sullivan. London ; New York : Continuum, [2012] ©2012 1 online resource (214 pages.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Continuum literary studies Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction -- Part One. Philosophy. 1. Fragile goodness and weakness of the will -- 2. "Weakness is the means dao employs": daoism and weakness -- 3. The flesh is weak: incarnating the word -- 4. Nietzsche's revaluation of power and Kierkegaard's despair of weakness -- 5. Why is Derrida's sign violent? grammatology and a "force of weakness" -- 6. Is there a "weaker vessel?": reshaping "phallic identity" with "womb vision" -- Part Two. Literature. 7. Recognizing limits: Keats's "weak mortality" and Wordsworth's "frailties of the world" -- 8. A sentimental man: Dickens, involuntary narration and the "experience of the common" -- 9. "Words of silent power": Joyce, kindness and life's "high carnage of semperidentity" -- 10. Beckett and "the authentic weakness of being" -- 11. Vulnerability, narrative authority and "the animal" in the work of J.M. Coetzee -- Conclusion: humane weakness. "Examining the nature of weakness has inspired some of the most influential aesthetic and philosophical portraits of the human condition. By reading a selection of canonical literary and philosophical texts, Michael O'Sullivan charts a history of responses to the experience and exploration of weakness. Beginning with Plato and Aristotle, this first book-length study of the concept explores weakness as it is interpreted by Lao Tzu, Nietzsche, Derrida, the Romantics, Dickens and the Modernists. It examines what feminist writers Simone de Beauvoir and Luce Irigaray have made of the gendered biomythology constructed around the figure of the 'weaker vessel' and it considers related notions such as im-potentiality, a 'syntax of weakness' and human vulnerability in the work of Agamben, Beckett and Coetzee. Through analysis of these differing versions of weakness, O'Sullivan's study challenges the popular myth that aligns masculine identity with strength and force and presents a humane weakness as a guiding motif for debates in ethics"--Provided by publisher. Print version record. English. Power (Philosophy) in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008411 Literature and society. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077572 Self in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94009300 Pouvoir (Morale) dans la littérature. Littérature et société. Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM Gay & Lesbian. bisacsh Literature and society fast Power (Philosophy) in literature fast Self in literature fast has work: Weakness (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFJPTB7wK33wgftqcWCKMP https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork Print version: O'Sullivan, Michael, 1974- Weakness. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2012 9781441162991 (DLC) 2011051218 (OCoLC)757481151 Continuum literary studies. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006009975 FWS01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=457476 Volltext CBO01 ZDB-4-EBA FWS_PDA_EBA https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=457476 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | O'Sullivan, Michael, 1974- Weakness : a literary and philosophical history / Continuum literary studies. Introduction -- Part One. Philosophy. 1. Fragile goodness and weakness of the will -- 2. "Weakness is the means dao employs": daoism and weakness -- 3. The flesh is weak: incarnating the word -- 4. Nietzsche's revaluation of power and Kierkegaard's despair of weakness -- 5. Why is Derrida's sign violent? grammatology and a "force of weakness" -- 6. Is there a "weaker vessel?": reshaping "phallic identity" with "womb vision" -- Part Two. Literature. 7. Recognizing limits: Keats's "weak mortality" and Wordsworth's "frailties of the world" -- 8. A sentimental man: Dickens, involuntary narration and the "experience of the common" -- 9. "Words of silent power": Joyce, kindness and life's "high carnage of semperidentity" -- 10. Beckett and "the authentic weakness of being" -- 11. Vulnerability, narrative authority and "the animal" in the work of J.M. Coetzee -- Conclusion: humane weakness. Power (Philosophy) in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008411 Literature and society. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077572 Self in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94009300 Pouvoir (Morale) dans la littérature. Littérature et société. Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM Gay & Lesbian. bisacsh Literature and society fast Power (Philosophy) in literature fast Self in literature fast |
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| topic | Power (Philosophy) in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008411 Literature and society. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077572 Self in literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94009300 Pouvoir (Morale) dans la littérature. Littérature et société. Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM Gay & Lesbian. bisacsh Literature and society fast Power (Philosophy) in literature fast Self in literature fast |
| topic_facet | Power (Philosophy) in literature. Literature and society. Self in literature. Pouvoir (Morale) dans la littérature. Littérature et société. Moi (Psychologie) dans la littérature. LITERARY CRITICISM Gay & Lesbian. Literature and society Power (Philosophy) in literature Self in literature |
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