1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463774203321

Autore

Foucault Michel <1926-1984, >

Titolo

Language, madness, and desire : on literature / / Michel Foucault ; edited by Philippe Artières [and three others] ; translated by Robert Bononno

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minnesota ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Minnesota Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-4529-5081-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (177 p.)

Disciplina

801

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: ContentsEditors' Introduction -- Note on the Text -- Language, Madness, and Desire -- Language and Madness -- The Silence of the Mad -- Mad Language -- Literature and Language -- Session One: What Is Literature? -- Session Two: What Is the Language of Literature? -- Lectures on Sade -- Session One: Why Did Sade Write? -- Session Two: Theoretical Discourses and Erotic Scenes -- Editors' Notes.

Sommario/riassunto

"As a transformative thinker of the twentieth century, whose work spanned all branches of the humanities, Michel Foucault had a complex and profound relationship with literature. And yet this critical aspect of his thought, because it was largely expressed in speeches and interviews, remains virtually unknown to even his most loyal readers. This book brings together previously unpublished transcripts of oral presentations in which Foucault speaks at length about literature and its links to some of his principal themes: madness, language and criticism, and truth and desire.The associations between madness and language--and madness and silence--preoccupy Foucault in two 1963 radio broadcasts, presented here, in which he ranges among literary examples from Cervantes and Shakespeare to Diderot, before taking up questions about Artaud's literary correspondence, lettres de cachet,



and the materiality of language. In his lectures on the relations among language, the literary work, and literature, he discusses Joyce, Proust, Chateaubriand, Racine, and Corneille, as well as the linguist Roman Jakobson. What we know as literature, Foucault contends, begins with the Marquis de Sade, to whose writing--particularly La Nouvelle Justine and Juliette--he devotes a full two-part lecture series focusing on notions of literary self-consciousness.Following his meditations on history in the recently published Speech Begins after Death, this current volume makes clear the importance of literature to Foucault's thought and intellectual development. "--

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792367403321

Autore

Itter Andrew C

Titolo

Esoteric teaching in the Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria [[electronic resource] /] / by Andrew C. Itter

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2009

ISBN

1-282-60189-X

9786612601897

90-474-2828-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae, , 0920-623X ; ; v. 97

Disciplina

239/.1

Soggetti

Alexandrian school, Christian

Christianity and other religions - Gnosticism

Gnosticism - Relations - Christianity

Theology - History - Early church, ca. 30-600

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-228) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Materials / A.C. Itter -- Introduction / A.C. Itter -- Chapter One. Teaching, Learning And Writing In Second And Third Century Alexandria / A.C. Itter -- Chapter Two. The Number And Sequence Of The Works / A.C. Itter -- Chapter Three. Logic And Enigma / A.C. Itter -- Chapter Four. The Doctrine Of Anamnesis / A.C. Itter -- Chapter Five. Physiology, Cosmogony And Theology / A.C. Itter -- Chapter Six.



The Doctrine Of Apokatastasis / A.C. Itter -- Conclusion / A.C. Itter -- Bibliography / A.C. Itter -- Subject Index / A.C. Itter.

Sommario/riassunto

The Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria (c.150-215 CE) has received much scholarly debate over whether it can be accorded the role of the third and highest phase of his pedagogy. This was a treatise that promised an account of the true philosophy of Christ set down for Christians seeking higher knowledge of doctrine. This book takes a new approach to deciphering the nature and purpose of these enigmatic books concentrating on the close relationship between method and doctrine, and the number and sequence of the texts as they have come down to us. The outcome is a concise summary of current scholarship on Clement’s method and a fresh picture of how he applies it to the transmission of esoteric doctrines.