Agamben's political ontology of nudity in literature and art /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Restuccia, Frances L., 1951- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : illustrations : Routledge, [2019]
Series:Literary criticism and cultural theory.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Literature and art
  • Profaning the Messiah or why can't Dulcinea love us?
  • A Messianic aesthetic: Lily Briscoe's vision
  • The melancholic and Messianic allure of Venice or how best to access the inaccessible
  • Non-unveilable nudity: death in Venice
  • Agamben's open: Coetzee's dis-grace
  • The glorious body: the nude in art
  • Theory (Heidegger and Lacan)
  • Agamben's post-metaphysical metapolitics: departing from Heidegger
  • Is the gaze a state of exception.