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The Geschlecht Complex: Addressing Untranslatable Aspects of Gender, Genre, and Ontology
The Geschlecht Complex: Addressing Untranslatable Aspects of Gender, Genre, and Ontology
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The Geschlecht Complex explores the ontological powers of naming and its impact on texts, objects, practices, and concepts when transferred or displaced across languages, traditions, and forms. It draws on Barbara Cassin's transformative remarks on untranslatability and the activity of "philosophizing in languages" to examine durable queries concerning the naming of ontological powers. The volume presents the "Geschlecht complex" as a condition to become aware of and companionably underwrite any interpretive endeavor, offering detailed case studies of concrete "category problems" in literature, philosophy, media, cinema, politics, painting, theatre, and the performing arts, as well as indispensable excerpts from canonical texts by notable thinkers.
Format: Hardback
Length: 368 pages
Publication date: 24 February 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
The polysemous German word Geschlecht, which encompasses gender, genre, kind, kinship, species, race, and more, poses fundamental questions about the translational, transdisciplinary, transhistorical, and transnational structures of the contemporary humanities. Scholars contributing to The Geschlecht Complex explore these questions through the lens of untranslatability and the activity of "philosophizing in languages." Drawing on Barbara Cassin's transformative remarks and recent artistic practices, theoretical innovations, and philosophical incitements, the volume examines the ontological powers of naming and its implications for interpreting texts, objects, practices, and concepts across languages, traditions, and temporalities. Combining detailed case studies of concrete "category problems" in literature, philosophy, media, cinema, politics, painting, theatre, and the performing arts with excerpts from canonical texts by notable thinkers, the Geschlecht Complex presents a condition to become aware of and companionably underwrite any interpretive endeavor. Historically grounded yet attuned to the particularities of the present, the Geschlecht complex becomes an invaluable mode for thinking and theorizing while navigating the urgent immediacy of pressing concerns and the inevitable complexities of categorial naming and genre discernment in the twenty-first century.
Weight: 678g
Dimension: 158 x 237 x 28 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781501381928
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