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Author: Nidesh Lawtoo File Type: pdf With its innovative narrative structure and its controversial explorations of race, gender and empire, Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness is a landmark of 20th century literature that continues to resonate to this day. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the full range of contemporary philosophical and critical responses to the text. Conrads Heart of Darkness and Contemporary Thought includes the first publication in English of philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthes essay, The Horror of the West, described by J. Hillis Miller as a major essay on Conrads novel, one of the best ever written. In the company of Lacoue-Labarthe, leading scholars explore new readings of Conrads text from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including deconstructive, psychoanalytic, narratological and postcolonial approaches. Drawing on the very latest insights of contemporary thought, this is an essential study of one of the most important literary texts of the 20th century. **Review ... provides a challenging and provocative reading of Heart of Darkness - not only for its timely re-assertion of Heart of Darkness as one of the greatest texts of Western literature, but also for its provocation of the range of responses evidenced by the essays in this volume... Nidesh Lawtoos volume sets up a critical dialogue between philosophy and literature and makes an important intervention in Conrad studies. -- Robert Hampson FEA, FRSA, Professor of Modern Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London, editor of Heart of Darkness (Penguin, 1995). Philippe Lacoue-Labarthes newly translated philosophical reading of Heart of Darkness, the centerpiece of this volume, is an event of thought itself. It provokes in this collection of extraordinary essays, new and richly diverse readings of Conrads novella. As responses to Lacoue-Labarthes The Horror of the West, these essays illuminate, and complicate - through accord, qualification, and disagreement - his important engagement with Heart of Darkness. All confirm, in their engaged and thoughtful attention to the text itself, Lacoue-Labarthes assertion that Heart of Darkness is one of the masterpieces of Western literature. Informed variously by contemporary philosophy and by critical theories of narrative, mimesis, and psychoanalysis, among others, these essays respond in their disparate tones and manners, to the French philosophers contention that the Wests will to power underlies the horrors of Roman colonization and Belgian atrocities in Africa as well as the Holocaust, current genocides and global violence, thus rendering them of striking currency and urgent relevance to us all. -- Andrea White, Professor of English, California State University at Dominguez Hills, USA Summing Up Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. -- J. G. Peters, University of North Texas CHOICE About the Author Nidesh Lawtoo is Lecturer in English at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He is the author of The Phantom of the Ego Modernism and the Mimetic Unconscious (2013). With its innovative narrative structure and its controversial explorations of race, gender and empire, Joseph Conrads Heart of Darkness is a landmark of 20th century literature that continues to resonate to this day. This book brings together leading scholars to explore the full range of contemporary philosophical and critical responses to the text. Conrads Heart of Darkness and Contemporary Thought includes the first publication in English of philosopher Philippe Lacoue-Labarthes essay, The Horror of the West, described by J. Hillis Miller as a major essay on Conrads novel, one of the best ever written. In the company of Lacoue-Labarthe, leading scholars explore new readings of Conrads text from a full range of theoretical perspectives, including deconstructive, psychoanalytic, narratological and postcolonial approaches. Drawing on the very latest insights of contemporary thought, this is an essential study of one of the most important literary texts of the 20th century.**

Author: Jan Bovelet File Type: pdf The essay deals with drawing as a genuine form of knowledge in architectural design. Drawing is described as an epistemic practice enmeshed with historically changing, material spaces of knowledge. Starting with a brief examination of historic philosophical positions on the epistemicity of drawing, the essay tries to sketch out a tentative heuristic of the epistemic features of drawing from the perspective of symbol and media theory. In the last part, with reference to Nelson Goodmans distinction between analogue and digital symbol systems, the digitalization of drawing is critically reviewed. The main point is to emphasize that the transformation of drawing into digital drawing formats always consist of a translation. It is crucial to take the challenges stemming from the indeterminacy of translation (W.v.O. Quine) into consideration in order to understand both the epistemic restrictions and the potentials of drawing under the conditions of the rising digital habitat.

Author: Jess Walter File Type: epub On the last hot day of summer in 1992, gunfire cracked over a rocky knob in northern Idaho, just south of the Canadian border. By the next day three people were dead, and a small war was joined, pitting the full might of federal law enforcement against one well-armed family. Drawing on extensive interviews with Randy Weavers family, government insiders, and others, Jess Walter traces the paths that led the Weavers to their confrontation with federal agents and led the government to treat a family like a gang of criminals. This is the story of what happened on Ruby Ridge the tragic and unlikely series of events that destroyed a family, brought down the number-two man in the FBI, and left in its wake a nation increasingly attuned to the dangers of unchecked federal power. **Review A stunning job of reporting. (New York Times Book Review) A brilliant, cautionary tale of the dangers of conspiracy thinkingby people and by governments. (Dennis Prager, talk show host and author of Think a Second Time) The most comprehensive, even-handed and best written account of Ruby Ridge currently in print. (Washington Times) Jess Walters careful chronicle of what happened in and around that cabin in...northern Idaho...is remarkably complete. (Salt Lake City Tribune) Tightly reported...an even-handed...excellent, minute-by-minute account. (The Portland Oregonian) A meticulously researched account of the Ruby Ridge incident. (People magazine) About the Author Jess Walter is the author of six novels, including the bestsellers Beautiful Ruins and The Financial Lives of the Poets, the National Book Award finalist The Zero, and Citizen Vince, the winner of the Edgar Award for best novel. His short fiction has appeared in Harpers, McSweeneys, and Playboy, as well as The Best American Short Stories and The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He lives in his hometown of Spokane, Washington.