Parker The Theorist's Mother

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-8223-9527-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Andrew Parker undertakes a critical reconsideration of the frequently absent, or troubled, figure of the mother in theorists including Marx, Freud, Lacan, and Derrida.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Parker, Andrew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften Semiotik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface and Acknowledgments xi

Introduction: Philosophy's Mother Trouble 1

1. Mom, Encore: Rereading, Teaching, and "Maternal Divination" 29

Beware the Crocodile! 29

"Mom" 34

Lacan's Two Bodies 40

Do Not Read 45

"Maternal Divination" 54

2. History, Fiction, and "The Author of Waverley; or, Fathers and Sons in Marxist Criticism 57

Family Romances 57

The Prehistory of the Present 59

The History of the Father 68

Fictions: Of Paternity 74

"The Author of Waverley 80

3. Translating Revolution: Freud, Marx, and the Mameloshn 88

The Mother of Language 88

The Translator's Hand(s) 91

Philosophies of Translation 95

Forgetting the Mother Tongue 99

The Mameloshn 103

Coda: Other Maternities 111

Notes 117

Bibliography 149

Index 173

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew Parker is Professor of English at Amherst College. He is the editor and co-translator of Jacques Ranciere’s The Philosopher and His Poor and a co-editor of After Sex? On Writing since Queer Theory, both also published by Duke University Press.