Research Catalog

Title

Are the humanities inconsequent? : interpreting Marx's riddle of the dog / Jerome McGann.

Author

McGann, Jerome J.

Publication

Chicago : Prickly Paradigm Press : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press, c2009.

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Description

96 p.; 18 cm.

Summary

"A spectre is haunting literature today- the spectre of patacriticism. Nowhere is the threat more evident than in the dog riddle propounded by the late Marx: 'Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.' This book, which explains for the first time what Marx meant, works from two assumptions: 1. That the riddle conceals an allegory about book culture and is addressed to the academic custodians of book culture; and 2. that our explanation is necessarily implicated in the problem posed by the riddle of the dog. It therefore remains to be seen -it is the reader's part to decide- whether the book is a friend to man or, perhaps like Marx's riddle, too dark to read."--Publisher's website.

Series Statement

Paradigm ; 36

Uniform Title

Paradigm (Chicago, Ill.) 36.

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Criticism
• Humanities

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Argument -- Part I. Pseudodoxia academica. Inside a dog -- In a word, enlightenment -- An old movie -- Academiana -- An ABC of interdisciplinarity -- Academiana -- Shop talk (fragment of a lexicon) -- In the beginning was the word -- Toronto star -- On sentimental and "second-rate" poetry in the twentieth century -- Recitation considered as a fine art -- Philology in a new key -- The living theatre -- Part II. Pointed instruments. Yourcenar's empire of the sensuous -- An ax for the frozen sea -- To hans gumbrecht, in the wilderness -- Eunoia: beauty or truth (or what?) -- Prescriptions.

ISBN

• 9780979405761
• 0979405769

LCCN

^^2009923955

OCLC

262883594

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library