In this Book
- Writing of the Formless: José Lezama Lima and the End of Time
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Fordham University Press
- Series: Lit Z
summary
In this book, Jaime Rodríguez Matos proposes the “formless” as a point of departure in thinking through the relationship between politics and time. Thinking through both literary and political writings around the Cuban Revolution, Rodríguez Matos explores exploring the link between abstract symbolic procedures and various political experiments that have sought to give form to a principle of sovereignty based on the category of representation. In doing so, he proposes the formless as the limit of modern and contemporary reflections on the meaning of politics while exploring the philosophical consequences of a formless concept of temporality for the critique of metaphysics. Rodríguez Matos takes the writing and thought of José Lezama Lima as the guiding thread in exploring the possibility of a politicity in which time is imagined beyond the disciplining functions it has had throughout the metaphysical tradition—a time of the absence of time, in which the absence of time no longer means eternity.
Table of Contents
Download Full Book
- Introduction
- pp. 1-26
- Part I: “Times”
- 1. Toward the Absence of Time
- pp. 27-51
- 3. The (Mixed) Times of Revolution
- pp. 79-98
- 4. Nihilism: Politics as Highest Value
- pp. 99-122
- Part II. Writing of the Formless
- pp. 123-184
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 195-196
- Bibliography
- pp. 217-228
- Series List
- pp. 233-238
Additional Information
ISBN
9780823274116
Related ISBN(s)
9780823274079
MARC Record
OCLC
958294495
Pages
248
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No