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Patrick Greaney - Untimely Beggar - 9780816649518 - V9780816649518
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Untimely Beggar

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Description for Untimely Beggar Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: KC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 332.

This highly original book takes as its starting point a central question for nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and philosophy: how to represent the poor?

 

Covering the period from the publication of Les Fleurs du Mal in 1857 to the composition of Benjamin’s final texts in the 1930s, Untimely Beggar investigates the coincidence of two modern literary and philosophical interests: representing the poor and representing potential. To take account of literature’s relation to the poor, Patrick Greaney proposes the concept of impoverished writing, which withdraws from representing objects and registers the existence of power. By reducing itself to the indication of ... Read more

 

This focus on impoverished language offers new perspectives on major French and German authors, including Marx, Nietzsche, Mallarmé, Rilke, and Brecht; and makes significant contributions to recent debates about power and potential in thinkers such as Agamben, Deleuze, Foucault, Hardt, and Negri. In doing so, Greaney offers significant insights into modernity’s intense philosophical and literary interest in socioeconomic poverty.

 

Patrick Greaney is assistant professor of German studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816649518
SKU
V9780816649518
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