Anne Norton

Bloodrites of the Bost-Structuralists

Word, Flesh and Revolution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How do you write history when it's no longer linear? In Bloodrites of the Post-Structuralists, respected political theorist Anne Norton reminds us of the real interplay between words (laws, scriptures, myths, and texts), and the world of flesh. Drawing from sources as diverse as foundational myths from Sarah in the bible, Marat in his death bath, and thinkers like Hegel and Foucault, Norton reinterprets the relationship between word and flesh and places it in historical context. The French and English Revolutions, as well as the period of anti-colonialism and post-colonialism are used to frame her discussion of word and body, and their historical significance.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 155mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 367g
• ISBN-13: 9780415934596
• ISBN-10: 0415934591
• Artikelnr.: 21451004

Autorenporträt

Anne Norton is Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also the founding co-editor of the journal, Theory and Event.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Shape of Life Grown Old Part I. 1. Power in the Blood 2.
Closed Body, Open Mind 3. The Word, the Flesh, the colonized 4. Hand and
Eye 5. Open Bodies, Closed Minds Part II. 6. Writing Over Blood 7. The Man
of Blood and the Army of Scripture 8. The Jews of Change Alley 9. Dutch
Williams Part III. 10. Revolutionary Memory 11. The Death of Marat 12. The
Perverse Authority of Writing Part IV. 13. The Sacrifice 14. The Fire Next
Time 15. Semele, or The Enlightenment in Flames Part V. 16. The Laughter of
Demeter 17. The Laughter of Sarah 18. The Annunciation, or the Text in the
Womb 19. The Circumcised