""The Abyss of Representation" is an outstanding contribution to a theory of literature and aesthetic philosophy. It is a strong elaboration of the failure inherent in representation and that failure's relevance to a cultural and political theory."--Michael Bernard-Donals, coauthor of "Between Witness and Testimony: The Holocaust and the Limits of Representation"
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix
Abbreviations for Works Cited xi
1. Representation and the Abyss of Subjectivity 1
2. Presentation beyond Representation: Kant and the Limits of Discursive Understanding 22
3. The Speculative Proposition: Hegel and the Drama of Presentation 53
4. Marx’s Key Concept? Althusser and the Darstellung Question 84
5. Figuration and the Sublime Logic of the Real: Jameson’s Libidinal Apparatuses 127
6. The Theater of Figural Space 182
7. Can the Symptom Speak? Hegemony and the Problem of Cultural Representation 235
Notes 295
Bibliography 319
Index 327
