Post-Theory, Games, and Discursive Resistance

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Post-Theory, Games, and Discursive Resistance
The Bulgarian Case

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Alexander Kiossev - Editor

SUNY series, The Margins of Literature

Price: $95.00
Hardcover - 190 pages

Release Date: January 1995

ISBN10: 0-7914-2357-3
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2357-8

Price: $31.95
Paperback - 190 pages

Release Date: January 1995

ISBN10: 0-7914-2358-1
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-2358-5

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Summary

This anthology of mixed-genre writings on East European political culture examines the aesthetic character of Eastern Europe before and after 1989, the beginning of a "post-totalitarian age."

This book consists of a dialogue of genres (fiction, parables, essay, analytic, programmatic) on the topic of Eastern European political culture before and after 1989. These texts introduce us to a reexamination of the aesthetic and political character of Eastern Europe. The later texts undertake a major theoretical revision of some of the key concepts in aesthetic and political philosophy associated with post-totalitarian Eastern Europe.

The topic is very important for a correct evaluation of the current ideological and aesthetic makeup of our postmodern age. The most stimulating aspect of this collection is its continuous detour through related areas--its definition of political aesthetics by way of the historical avant-garde, its explanation of communism by way of the modernist utopia.

"This collection is subtle and dialogic in nature. Its various texts talk to one another, impacting, echoing, responding to one another's arguments. There is also an interesting dialogue of genres in this book: various kinds of discourses collaborate towards a reconstruction of Eastern European political culture, before and after 1989." -- Marcel Cornis-Pope, Virginia Commonwealth University

Alexander Kiossev teaches in the Department of Slavic Studies at Georg-August Universitat in Gottingen, Germany.

Table of Contents

Introduction: A Broken Promise
Alexander Kiossev

Part I. Ars Simulacri

The Transparent Book
Ivaylo Ditchev

Literalisms
Ivaylo Ditchev

Angulus: The Figure of Sameness
Vladislav Todorov

The Four Luxembourgs, Civitas Peregrina
Vladislav Todorov

Pierre Menard, the Author of Don Quixote
Ivan Kristev

Goethe's Indigo
Alexander Kiossev, etc.

Part II. Political Aesthetics of Communism

Introduction to the Political Aesthetics of Communism
Vladislav Todorov

From Anatomy of the Political Body

I. A Political Anatomy of Communism
II. The Guillontine and Acid
Ivan Kristev

Part III. The Post-Paranoid Condition

The Post-Paranoid Condition
Ivaylo Ditchev

Epitaph for Sacrifice, Epitaph for the Left
Ivaylo Ditchev

An Essay on Terror
Alexander Kiossev

An Essay on Theoretical Terror
Ivan Kristev

Epilogue: Health Takes the Power
Alexander Kiossev

Contributors

Index

Related Subjects

Comparative Literature
Cultural Critique
European Studies
Literary Theory
Postmodernism
Post Structuralism

25912/25918(CFS//)

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