1st Edition
Agamben’s Political Ontology of Nudity in Literature and Art
By Frances Restuccia
Copyright 2019
220 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
218 Pages
by
Routledge
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This volume develops the central (though neglected) Agambenian concept of nudity along with its crucial political implications. The book discovers within The Use of Bodies a philosophical path to Agamben’s "ontology of nudity," as it is subtended by his notion of the messianic—a dual temporality of form in motion reflected in the image of a whirlpool that is autonomous although no drop of water... Read more
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Biography
A Boston College English Professor, Frances Restuccia teaches contemporary theory, modernism, and the world novel. Her published books are James Joyce and the Law of the Father (Yale UP 1989); Melancholics in Love (Rowman & Littlefield 2000); Amorous Acts: Lacanian Ethics in Modernism, Film, and Queer Theory (Stanford UP 2006); and The Blue Box: Kristevan/Lacanian Readings of Contemporary Film (Continuum 2012). She co-chairs "Psychoanalytic Practices" at Harvard. Recent essays have appeared in Philosophy Today, Genre, Comparative Literature, and American Imago.
