LEADER 05491nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910808625003321 005 20211005034434.0 010 $a0-8232-3528-9 010 $a0-8232-4674-4 010 $a1-282-69895-8 010 $a9786612698958 010 $a0-8232-3775-3 010 $a0-8232-3002-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823237753 035 $a(CKB)2520000000008089 035 $a(MH)012071042-0 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000438076 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11321678 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000438076 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10449548 035 $a(PQKB)11516164 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021266 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239453 035 $a(OCoLC)748595457 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse14891 035 $a(DE-B1597)554990 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823237753 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239453 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10365071 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL269895 035 $a(OCoLC)748361992 035 $a(OCoLC)647876413 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC476637 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL476637 035 $a(EXLCZ)992520000000008089 100 $a20090126d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aIn the place of language$b[electronic resource] $eliterature and the architecture of the referent /$fClaudia Brodsky 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2009 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 171 p. ) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8232-3000-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 163-171). 327 $aReferent and annihilation: "x" marks the spot -- Theory of appropriation: Rousseau, Schmitt, and Kant -- "Sovereignty" over language: of lice and men -- Goethe after Lanzmann: literature represents "x" -- Faust's building: theory as practice -- Faust's and Heidegger's technology: building as poiesis -- In the place of language -- "Time refound" -- Building, story, and image -- Benjamin's and Goethe's Passagen: Ottilie under glass -- Nature in pieces -- "Superfluous stones" -- "Stones for thought" -- Kant's and Goethe's Schatzkammer: buried time. 330 $aThe "place" in the title of Claudia Brodsky's remarkable new book is the intersection of language with building, the marking, for future reference, of material constructions in the world. The "referent" Brodsky describes is not something first found in nature and then named but a thing whose own origin joins language with materiality, a thing marked as it is made to begin with. In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent develops a theory of the "referent" that is thus also a theory of the possibility of historical knowledge, one that undermines the conventional opposition of language to the real by theories of nominalism and materialism alike, no less than it confronts the mystical conflation of language with matter, whether under the aegis of the infinite reproducibility of the image or the identification of language with "Being."Challenging these equally naive views of language - as essentially immaterial or the only essential matter - Brodsky investigates the interaction of language with the material that literature represents. For literature, Brodsky argues, seeks no refuge from its own inherently iterable, discursive medium in dreams of a technologically-induced freedom from history or an ontological history of language-being. Instead it tells the complex story of historical referents constructed and forgotten, things built into the earth upon which history "takes place" and of which, in the course of history, all visible trace is temporarily effaced. Literature represents the making of history, the building and burial of the referent, the present world of its oblivion and the future of its unearthing, and it can do this because, unlike the historical referent, it literally takes no place, is not tied to any building or performance in space. For the same reason literature can reveal the historical nature of the making of meaning, demonstrating that the shaping and experience of the real, the marking of matter that constitutes historical referents, also defers knowledge of the real to a later date. Through close readings of central texts by Goethe, Plato, Kant, Heidegger, and Benjamin, redefined by the interrelationship of building and language they represent, In the Place of Language analyzes what remains of actions that attempt to take the place of language: the enduring, if intermittently obscured bases, of theoretical reflection itself. 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aReference (Philosophy) 606 $aReference (Linguistics) 606 $aSemiotics and literature 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aReference (Philosophy) 615 0$aReference (Linguistics) 615 0$aSemiotics and literature. 676 $a801 700 $aBrodsky$b Claudia$f1955-$0457788 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910808625003321 996 $aIn the place of language$94111406 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress