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Claudia Brodsky - In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent - 9780823230006 - V9780823230006
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In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent

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Description for In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent Hardback. Analyzes what remains of actions that attempt to take the place of language: the enduring, if intermittently obscured bases, of theoretical reflection itself. In this title, the author describes is not something first found in nature and then named but a thing whose own origin joins language with materiality. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: CFA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 400.

The "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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823230006
SKU
V9780823230006
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About Claudia Brodsky
Claudia Brodsky is Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She is the author of The Imposition of Form: Studies in Narrative Representation and Knowledge, Lines of Thought: Discourse, Archetonics, and the Origin of Modern Philosophy and the editor, with Toni Morrison, of Birth of a Nation ’hood.

Reviews for In the Place of Language: Literature and the Architecture of the Referent
"Beyond its stunning synthesis of philosophy and literature this book offers fresh readings of Goethe's two currently most discussed works." -Modern Language Quarterly "Building on Brodsky's earlier explorations of the interconnection between the discursive arts and the art of building, In the Place of Language situates the act of linguistic reference at the intersection of earth and edifice, indication and ... Read more

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