Passive Voices (On the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech)

Kristina Mendicino

Published by SUNY Press 2023

Passive Voices (On the Subject of Phenomenology and Other Figures of Speech)

Kristina Mendicino

In the series SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781438491981

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About this book

Addresses the question of how language affects the subject of speech through readings of confessional, philosophical, and fictional writings.

Author / Editor information

Kristina Mendico is Associate Professor of German Studies at Brown University. She is the author of Announcements: On Novelty, also published by SUNY Press, and Prophecies of Language: The Confusion of Tongues in German Romanticism.

Reviews

"Well-researched and meticulously argued, Mendicino's book explores how even the most minimal, seemingly immediate experience of the self is marked, traversed by language, putting that very immediacy and everything that follows from it (not least the very notion of identity) into question." — Jan Plug, author of They Have All Been Healed: Reading Robert Walser

"Passive Voices is a beautiful, if not magisterial, study of the pathos of language in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology and several works of modern literature inspired by his philosophy. In exacting readings, Mendicino attends to the words and methods of phenomenology to call into question the concepts of subjectivity and givenness at the heart of this form of inquiry. The book is exhilarating to read in its precision, maturity, chiseled phrasing, and always incisive analysis." — Rochelle Tobias, author of Pseudo-Memoirs: Life and Its Imitation in Modern Fiction

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Principally Unprincipled; or, Speaking of “Beginnings” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
“Self”-Citations in Husserl and Augustine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	23
Provocations “I,” Husserl, and the Passive Voices of Phenomenology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Parsing Pairing George Bataille and the Scripts of Subjectivity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
Writing Out of Sight On the Papers and Traces of Kafka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
Passive Voices Echoes, Blanchot Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
Postscript Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	163
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291

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Language: English
Publisher: SUNY Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 305
Illustrations
- Other: Total Illustrations: 0
Keywords: Philosophy : Continental Philosophy; Literature : Comparative Literature; Literature : Literary Theory; Philosophy : Phenomenology

eBook

Published: February 1, 2023
ISBN: 9781438491981