On Spectrality

Fantasies of Redemption in the Western Canon

von David Ratmoko

164 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

In this bold and highly original work, David Ratmoko offers an analysis of haunting in the history of European literature, law, and politics, in the wake of Derrida’s notion of ‘spectrality’. Interested in figures of redemption from guilt, he traces the rise of canonical literature through the history of an encryption or transcoding that has produced such fantastic compromises as Exodus, Greek tragedy, Dante’s Comedia, and Shakespeare’s Hamlet as well as the conversion into capitalism. Addressing the issue of ghosts through our modern crisis of legitimacy, as raised by Benjamin, Schmitt, and Kafka, Ratmoko explores Freud’s idea of traumatic fantasy in its capacity of driving the progress of spirituality or spectrality in the Judeo-Christian world.

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Geschichte und Kritik Literaturwissenschaft, allgemein 1400 bis 1600 (Renaissance / Humanismus)
• ISBN: 9780820481302
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 08.12.2005
• Größe: 21 x 14.8 cm
• Verlag: Peter Lang Publishing Inc. New York