The Doppelganger : Literature's Philosophy / Dimitris Vardoulakis.
Vardoulakis, Dimitris, author.
2010
B66 .V36 2010eb
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Title The Doppelganger : Literature's Philosophy / Dimitris Vardoulakis.
Author Vardoulakis, Dimitris, author.
ISBN 9780823238392
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823238392
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2010]
Copyright ©2010
Language English
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Description 1 online resource (336 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823238392 doi
Call Number B66 .V36 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 190
Summary The Doppelgänger or Double presents literature as the "double" of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelgänger is literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity. The Doppelgänger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of Idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality and human agency. This critique prefigures post-War extrapolations of the subject as decentred. From this perspective, the Doppelgänger has a "family resemblance" to current conceptualizations of subjectivity. It becomes the emblematic subject of modernity. This is the first significant study on the Doppelgänger's influence on philosophical thought. The Doppelgänger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophy's relation to literature. Vardoulakis demonstrates this by employing the Doppelgänger to read literature philosophically and to read philosophy as literature. The Doppelgänger then appears instrumental in the self-conception of both literature and philosophy.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Preamble, or An Other Opening
Introduction, or The Reflections of the Doppelgänger
Chapter One. The Critique of Loneliness
Chapter Two. The Subject of Modernity
Chapter Three. The Task of the Doppelgänger
Chapter Four. The Politics of the Doppelgänger
Chapter Five. Self-Inscriptions
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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