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Mourning becomes the law : philosophy and representation / Gillian Rose.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.Description: 163 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 052157045X
  • 0521578493 (pbk)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • B1649.R73 M68 1996
Contents:
1. Athens and Jerusalem: a tale of three cities -- 2. Beginnings of the day: Fascism and representation -- 3. The comedy of Hegel and the Trauerspiel of modern philosophy -- 4. 'Would that they would forsake Me but observe my Torah': Midrash and political authority -- 5. Potter's Field: death worked and unworked -- 6. O! untimely death. / Death!
Summary: In Mourning Becomes the Law, Gillian Rose takes us beyond the impasse of post-modernism or 'despairing rationalism without reason'. Arguing that the post-modern search for a 'new ethics' and ironic philosophy are incoherent, she breathes new life into the debates concerning power and domination, transcendence and eternity.Mourning Becomes the Law is the philosophical counterpart to Gillian Rose's highly acclaimed memoir Love's Work. She extends similar clarity and insight to discussions of architecture, cinema, painting and poetry, through which relations between the formation of the individual and the theory of justice are connected. At the heart of this reconnection lies a reflection on the significance of the Holocaust and Judaism.
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Books Books AIU/NEGST - Tony Wilmot Memorial Library General Stacks General Circulation B 1649.R73M68 1996 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available R27545K3232

Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-151) and index.

1. Athens and Jerusalem: a tale of three cities -- 2. Beginnings of the day: Fascism and representation -- 3. The comedy of Hegel and the Trauerspiel of modern philosophy -- 4. 'Would that they would forsake Me but observe my Torah': Midrash and political authority -- 5. Potter's Field: death worked and unworked -- 6. O! untimely death. / Death!

In Mourning Becomes the Law, Gillian Rose takes us beyond the impasse of post-modernism or 'despairing rationalism without reason'. Arguing that the post-modern search for a 'new ethics' and ironic philosophy are incoherent, she breathes new life into the debates concerning power and domination, transcendence and eternity.

Mourning Becomes the Law is the philosophical counterpart to Gillian Rose's highly acclaimed memoir Love's Work. She extends similar clarity and insight to discussions of architecture, cinema, painting and poetry, through which relations between the formation of the individual and the theory of justice are connected. At the heart of this reconnection lies a reflection on the significance of the Holocaust and Judaism.

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