Research Catalog

Title

The Romanticism of contemporary theory : institutions, aesthetics, nihilism / Justin Clemens.

Author

Clemens, Justin

Publication

Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2003.

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Description

xvii, 219 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Justin Clemens presents a valuable study of the links between Romanticism and contemporary theory. The central contention of this book is that contemporary theory is still essentially Romantic - despite all its declarations to the contrary, and despite all its attempts to elude or exceed the limits bequeathed it by Romantic thought." "This study will be of interest to literary theorists, philosophers, political theorists, and cultural studies scholars."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Studies in European cultural transition

Uniform Title

Studies in European cultural transition

Subject

• Criticism > History > 20th century
• Romanticism

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The Embryonic Remains -- Contexts -- The Institution of Romanticism -- Universal Anaesthesia -- Nihilism, Aesthetics, and Institutions -- Interventions -- Sex, Formalization, and Jacques Lacan -- Aesthetic Multiplicity in the Work of Deleuze and Guattari -- Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick and the Family Romance of Queer Theory -- Cultural Studies, Cultural Policy, and the Professed Anti-Romanticism of Ian Hunter -- Alain Badiou, or; From the Sublime to the Infinite.

ISBN

0754608751 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2002074718

OCLC

• 50243062
• SCSB-10744751

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library