Premodern Condition Medievalism and the Making of Theory

Name: Premodern Condition Medievalism and the Making of Theory
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ISBN: 9780226349725

ISBN-10: 0226349721

ISBN-13: 9780226349725

Edition: 2005

Authors: Bruce Holsinger

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"The Premodern Condition identifies and explains a surprising affinity for medievalism and medieval studies among the leading figures of critical theory. Drawing on a wide range of philosophical, literary-critical, and sociological works produced within the French "nouvelle critique of the 1960s, Holsinger argues for reconceiving these discourses, in part, as a brilliant amalgamation of medievalisms. Holsinger shows that the preoccupation with medieval cultures and practices among Bataille, Derrida, Lacan, Barthes, Bourdieu, and their cohorts was so wide ranging that it merits recognition as one of the most significant epiphenomena of postwar French thought. Not simply an object of…

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List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 12/1/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Avant-Garde Premodern



Para-Thomism: Bataille at Rheims



Apocalypse and Archaeophilia: Lacan's Middle Ages and the Ethics of History



Indigeneity: Panofsky, Bourdieu, and the Archaeology of the Habitus



Gothic Invention: Liturgy, History, Of Grammatology



The Four Senses of Roland Barthes


Epilogue



Medieval French Literature, Chivalric Morals, and Passion Georges Bataille



Postface to Erwin Panofsky, Gothic Architecture and Scholasticism Pierre Bourdieu



Works Cited


Index