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Stupefaction: A Radical Anatomy of Phantoms

by Keston Sutherland
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9781906497972
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: English Literature
  • Publisher: Seagull Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Seagull
  • Publication Date:
  • Pages: 264
  • Original Price: INR 450.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 500 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Semiotics & Theory

About the Book From Shakespeare to Beckett, the contradictory figure of the fool who possesses unexpected wisdom has been a popular and effective literary trope and rhetorical figure for centuries. Philosophy needs Idiots too, argues keston Sutherland in stupefaction. This is a book about how Idiots are created, how they are used and the types of truth that depend on them. Sutherland examines how speculative and satirical descriptions of stupidity function in art and in argument. His examples include Alexander pope’s dunce, adorno’s Phillistines, Wordsworth’s Mechanical adopter of poetic diction and phenomenologist Michel Henry’s drunkard who rides an escalation to Nothingness. Sutherland also provides an important new account of the figure of the bourgeois in Marx and a powerfully original interpretation of commodity Fetishism as a satire against bourgeois objectivity. This unusual analysis of the trope of the idiot will appeal to scholars of literature and philosophy alike. About the Author Keston Sutherland is a reader in Poetics at the University of Sussex in the UK. He is the editor of the poetics and critical theory journal QUID and co-editor (with Andrea Brady) at Barque Press. His other books include Neocosis (2005), Hot White Andy(2007) and Stress Position (2009) and, most recently, The Stats on Infinity (2010), all of which are collections of poems. Stupefactionis his first book of critical and literary theory.

Keston Sutherland is a reader in poetics at the University of Sussex. He is the editor of the journal QUID and co-editor of Barque Press. His other books include Neocosis, Hot White Andy, and Stress Position.

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