The central concern of these eight studies and essays is the understanding and critique of culture at the shifty boundaries between the Modem and the Postmodern epochs. The author contends that what needs to be addressed is the very abyss, the "spacetime" between the Modern and the Postmodern worldviews, as well as the tension between aesthetics and ethics, critical discourse and the creative arts, in an effort to rethink multireferential processes of signification. The keystone of the book is Carravetta's notion of ...
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The central concern of these eight studies and essays is the understanding and critique of culture at the shifty boundaries between the Modem and the Postmodern epochs. The author contends that what needs to be addressed is the very abyss, the "spacetime" between the Modern and the Postmodern worldviews, as well as the tension between aesthetics and ethics, critical discourse and the creative arts, in an effort to rethink multireferential processes of signification. The keystone of the book is Carravetta's notion of Diaphoristics, a theory of interpretation as dialogue. Diaphora, or difference, refers to the ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy and signifies the movement between asymmetrical or heterogeneous forms of discourse that have, both historically and speculatively, borne the transfer of meaning from one semantic/hermeneutic field to another. The author focuses on the necessary risk and duplicity of criticism and develops nonagonistic models based on figuration and rhetorical dynamics. In two other chapters, the author steps back to reassess, in terms of the diaphora, the diverging notions of Postmodernity by the continental philosophers Lyotard and Vattimo. The collection ends with an essay on the long-overdue conversation between Vico and Heidegger.
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Good. Size: 6x1x9; [PHILOSOPHY]. Carravetta, Peter. "Prefaces to the Diaphora: Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity." West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1991. English language. Hardcover in dust jacket. Text with black and white illustrations. 9.5 x 6.25 x 1.25 in. 23 x 16 x 3 cm. 28 oz. xx, 345 pp. Cream cloth boards with black stamped lettering on spine. Jacket has rips, tears, use, rubbing. Stickers on inside front cover and free front endpaper. Price in pencil on half-title. Good Plus in Fair jacket. ISBN: 1557530041."The central concern of these eight studies and essays is the understanding and critique of culture at the shifty boundaries between the Modem and the Postmodern epochs. The author contends that what needs to be addressed is the very abyss, the spacetime between the Modern and the Postmodern worldviews, as well as the tension between aesthetics and ethics, critical discourse and the creative arts, in an effort to rethink multireferential processes of signification. The keystone of the book is Carravetta's notion of Diaphoristics, a theory of interpretation as dialogue. Diaphora, or difference, refers to the ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy and signifies the movement between asymmetrical or heterogeneous forms of discourse that have, both historically and speculatively, borne the transfer of meaning from one semantic/hermeneutic field to another. The author focuses on the necessary risk and duplicity of criticism and develops nonagonistic models based on figuration and rhetorical dynamics. In two other chapters, the author steps back to reassess, in terms of the diaphora, the diverging notions of Postmodernity by the continental philosophers Lyotard and Vattimo. The collection ends with an essay on the long-overdue conversation between Vico and Heidegger."
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Very Good in Very Good dust jacket in Very Good jacket. Pages crisp and clean except for modest foxing at the top and right edges of the book; binding square and tight, hard cover only very lightly rubbed at the spine ends. Jacket shows thin lines of surface wear along the spine shoulders and foreedges, a vertical scratch at the lower front, a light drip spot at the upper spine, a small patch of spotting at the bottom right front, and mild shelfwear at corners and spine ends, otherwise excellent. 345pp. w/ index.
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