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An Art of Desire. Reading Paul Auster the first book-length study solely devoted to the novels of Paul Auster. From the vantage-point of poststructuralist theory, especially Lacanian psychoanalysis and Derridean deconstruction, this book explores the relation of Auster's novels City of Glass, In the Country of Last Things, Moon Palace, and The Music of Chance to the rewriting and deconstruction of genre conventions; their connections to concepts such as catastrophe theory, the sublime, Freud's notion of the 'death drive;' as well as the philosophical underpinnings of his work. At the focus of this study, however, is the concept of desire, an important concept in the writings of both Auster and Lacan, and the various manifestations of this concept in Auster's novels. Auster's novels always emphasize a kind of outside of the text (chance, the real, the unsayable), a kind of hope for a 'transparent language,' a hope, however, that is exactly posited as impossible to fulfill. The relation of Daniel Quinn, Anna Blume, Marco Fogg and Jim Nashe to this lack is the motor of their desire, the driving force for the subject that has always already left the real and has been inscribed into the representational system called 'reality.' It is here, in its relation to the signifier, that the subject's desire is played out, that its experience is ordered, interpreted, and articulated. It is their ability to make connections, to proliferate, to 'affirm free-play,' their ability 'not to bemoan the absence of the centre' that ultimately decides over success or failure of Auster's subjects - whether they partake in the 'joyous errance of the sign,' or whether their fate is that of the 'unfortunate traveler.'..Back cover.

Auster, Paul --- 82.015.9 --- Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- 82.015.9 Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- Auster (paul), 1947 --- -Auster, Paul

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82.09 --- 82.015.9 --- Literaire kritiek --- Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- 82.015.9 Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- 82.09 Literaire kritiek

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82.015.9 --- #GROL:SEMI-141 Post --- Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- 82.015.9 Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- anno 1900-1999

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An introduction to the nature of modernity as envisioned by Germany's leading social theorist of the late twentieth century, Niklas Luhmann. The book injects concepts derived from Luhmann's influential systems theory into debates about modernity and postmodernity, constructivist and foundationalist epistemologies, the relationship between politics and ethics, and the possibilities of interdisciplinary work that spans the great divide between science and the humanities. The book stages challenging engagements with such thinkers as Jürgen Habermas, Jacques Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard, Drucilla Cornell, Judith Butler, Michel Serres, N. Katherine Hayles, and such political theorists as Chantal Mouffe and Carl Schmitt. The book closes with two interviews: one a discussion with Luhmann and Hayles on epistemology, the other with Luhmann on the functional differentiation of modern society.

Luhmann, Niklas --- Differentiation (Sociology) --- Sociology. --- Luhmann, Niklas, --- 82.015.9 --- 82:3 --- Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- 82:3 Literatuur en maatschappijwetenschappen --- 82.015.9 Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- Differentiation (Sociology). --- Sociology --- Social theory --- Social sciences --- Social differentiation --- Social change

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82.0 --- 82:1 --- 82.015.9 --- 82.015.9 Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- Literaire stromingen: postmodernisme --- 82:1 Literatuur en filosofie --- Literatuur en filosofie --- 82.0 Literatuurtheorie --- Literatuurtheorie --- Literature --- Critique --- Déconstruction