In the place of language literature and the architecture of the referent / by Brodsky, Claudia, 1955-

Table of Contents: “…Referent and annihilation: "x" marks the spot -- Theory of appropriation: Rousseau, Schmitt, and Kant -- "Sovereignty" over language: of lice and men -- Goethe after Lanzmann: literature represents "x" -- Faust's building: theory as practice -- Faust's and Heidegger's technology: building as poiesis -- In the place of language -- "Time refound" -- Building, story, and image -- Benjamin's and Goethe's Passagen: Ottilie under glass -- Nature in pieces -- "Superfluous stones" -- "Stones for thought" -- Kant's and Goethe's Schatzkammer: buried time.…”
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