{"product_id":"9781501381966","title":"Geschlecht Complex Addressing Untranslatable Aspects of Gender, Genre, and Ontology","description":"\u003ch1\u003eGeschlecht Complex\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAddressing Untranslatable Aspects of Gender, Genre, and Ontology\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eOscar Jansson | David LaRocca\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Comparative Literature\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe polysemous German word \u003ci\u003eGeschlecht -- \u003c\/i\u003edenoting gender, genre, kind, kinship, species, race, and somehow also more -- exemplifies the most pertinent questions of the translational, transdisciplinary, transhistorical, and transnational structures of the contemporary humanities: What happens when texts, objects, practices, and concepts are transferred or displaced from one language, tradition, temporality, or form to another? What is readily transposed, what resists relocation, and what precipitate emerges as distorted or new?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on Barbara Cassin's transformative remarks on untranslatability, and the activity of “philosophizing in languages,” scholars contributing to \u003ci\u003eThe Geschlecht Complex\u003c\/i\u003e examine these and other durable queries concerning the ontological powers of naming, and do so in the light of recent artistic practices, theoretical innovations, and philosophical incitements. Combining detailed case studies of concrete “category problems” in literature, philosophy, media, cinema, politics, painting, theatre, and the performing arts with a range of indispensable excerpts from canonical texts -- by notable, field-defining thinkers such as Apter, Cassin, Cavell, Derrida, Irigaray, Malabou, and Nancy, among others -- the volume presents “the \u003ci\u003eGeschlecht\u003c\/i\u003e complex” as a condition to become aware of, and in turn, to companionably underwrite any interpretive endeavor.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHistorically grounded, yet attuned to the particularities of the present, the \u003ci\u003eGeschlecht\u003c\/i\u003e complex becomes an invaluable mode for thinking and theorizing while ensconced in the urgent immediacy of pressing concerns, and poised for the inevitable complexities of categorial naming and genre discernment that await in the so often inscrutable, translation-resistant twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOscar Jansson\u003c\/b\u003e teaches Comparative Literature at Lund University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eGraham Greene and the Conditions of 20th Century Literature\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eTranslating Sex \u0026amp; Gender.\u003c\/i\u003e His work on literature and media, ranging from the aesthetics of national romanticism to affective modes of satire in contemporary fiction, regularly appears in publications such as \u003ci\u003eTidskrift för Litteraturvetenskap\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePassage, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCanadian Review of Comparative Literature.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid LaRocca\u003c\/b\u003e is the author, editor, or coeditor of more than a dozen books, with several of them from Bloomsbury, including \u003ci\u003eEmerson's English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEstimating Emerson: An Anthology of Criticism from Carlyle to Cavell\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Bloomsbury Anthology of Transcendental Thought: From Antiquity to the Anthropocene\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Thought of Stanley Cavell and Cinema: Turning Anew to the Ontology of Film a Half-Century after \u003c\/i\u003eThe World Viewed, \u003ci\u003eInheriting Stanley Cavell: Memories, Dreams, Reflections\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eMovies with Stanley Cavell in Mind\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Geschlecht Complex: Addressing Untranslatable Aspects of Gender, Genre, and Ontology\u003c\/i\u003e. He studied rhetoric at Berkeley, served as Harvard's Sinclair Kennedy Fellow in the United Kingdom, participated in an NEH Institute and the School of Criticism and Theory. He has taught philosophy, rhetoric, and cinema, and held visiting research or teaching positions in the United States at Binghamton, Cornell, Cortland, Harvard, Ithaca College, the New York Public Library, the School of Visual Arts, and Vanderbilt. www.DavidLaRocca.org\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e08 February 2024\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781501381966\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e368\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e17.28\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369081733260,"sku":"9781501381966","price":36.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_18acdd94-300a-436f-8340-18da279cdbf8.jpg?v=1783877861","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9781501381966","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}