Odysseys of Recognition: Performing Intersubjectivity in Homer, Aristotle, Shakespeare, Goethe, and Kleist
Bucknell University Press, 2019
Paper: 978-1-68448-037-1 | Cloth: 978-1-68448-038-8 | eISBN: 978-1-68448-041-8
Library of Congress Classification PN56.R33W54 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.93353
Paper: 978-1-68448-037-1 | Cloth: 978-1-68448-038-8 | eISBN: 978-1-68448-041-8
Library of Congress Classification PN56.R33W54 2019
Dewey Decimal Classification 809.93353
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Literary recognition is a technical term for a climactic plot device. Odysseys of Recognition claims that interpersonal recognition is constituted by performance, and brings performance theory into dialogue with poetics, politics, and philosophy. By observing Odysseus figures from Homer to Kleist, Ellwood Wiggins offers an alternative to conventional intellectual histories that situate the invention of the interior self in modernity. Through strategic readings of Aristotle, this elegantly written, innovative study recovers an understanding of interpersonal recognition that has become strange and counterintuitive. Penelope in Homer’s Odyssey offers a model for agency in ethical knowledge that has a lot to teach us today. Early modern and eighteenth-century characters, meanwhile, discover themselves not deep within an impenetrable self, but in the interpersonal space between people in the world. Recognition, Wiggins contends, is the moment in which epistemology and ethics coincide: in which what we know becomes manifest in what we do.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Published by Bucknell University Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
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