On the Nature of Marx's Things: Translation as Necrophilology
With impressive erudition and passion, Jacques Lezra returns to Marxian things to clarify some older debates and to make a fresh and welcome intervention in contemporary critical and literary theory. For Lezra, the term 'object' designates neither the mental object nor the material one but precisely the relation between them, a relation of translation that shows how objects produce new forms of knowing. Elaborating a 'necrophilology' that gives place to the structuring powers of loss, Lezra shows how critique requires the materiality of the poem as what is constantly rewrought to understand the process, the system, and the stuff of life.-Judi…
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Weitere Autoren: Morfino, Vittorio (Solist)
- ISBN: 978-0-8232-7943-2
- EAN: 9780823279432
- Produktnummer: 24829586
- Verlag: Fordham Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
- Seitenangabe: 288 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.3 cm 386 g
- Gewicht: 386
Über den Autor
Jacques Lezra is Professor in the Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. His most recent publications are República salvaje (2019), On the Nature of Marx's Things (2018), Untranslating Machines: A Genealogy for the Ends of Global Thought (2017), and Contra todos los fueros de la muerte(2016).
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