Platωn's Reality, Baudrillard's Nostalgia: The Oὐσία, the 'Pataphysical Atopos, and Postmodern Made Spaces

ISBN-13: 9781433182297 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 238 str.

Anastasia Nic?phore

Opis

This book juxtaposes Plat nic exegesis of the real-the " s "-and Baudrillardian aporia into current modes of reality for a body politic in acceleration.

Spis treści

Preface - Acknowledgements - A Note on Translations - Prooímion Plat n's Reality, Baudrillard's Nostalgia - Plat n's O s : The Paradox of the Forms - Plat n Is Dead: Romanticist Interludes to the s - Jarry's 'Pataphysics - Baudrillard's Nostalgia in an Age of Global Acceleration - Baudrillard's In Vacuo and the Autistic Body Politic - Zizek, Somnambulance, and a Walk through the Desert of the Real - Epilogue Thanatos of the s ? - Index of Greek Lexicon - Index.

O autorze

Anastasia Nicéphore, recieved her PhD in English from University of Sydney in Australia and her MA in educational leadership and management from University of London, Institute of Education, University College London. She is a recipient of the University Postgraduate Awards (Sydney University, 2013-16) and the Nicholas Aroney Prize (2016). Nicéphore is Associate Lecturer in the Writing Studies Department at Sydney University and Director at the Global Centre of Advanced Studies (GCAS) Research Institute in Ireland. She is editor and contributing author of Diasporic Identities and Empire: Cultural Contentions and Literary Landscapes (2013).