This book explores Clarice Lispector's work through the lens of "affirmative biopolitics," highlighting the ontological and ethical deadlock between personality and impersonality. It analyzes her complex anthropological vision and its metaphysical implications, focusing on themes of mystical and messianic nature rooted in Jewish tradition.
This book explores Clarice Lispector's work through the lens of "affirmative biopolitics," highlighting the ontological and ethical deadlock between personality and impersonality. It analyzes her complex anthropological vision and its metaphysical implications, focusing on themes of mystical and messianic nature rooted in Jewish tradition.
Wojciech Sawala is an assistant professor in the Department of Portuguese at Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, Poland. Comparatist and Latin Americanist, he specializes in the continent's twentieth-century narrative classics, including Borges, Cortázar, Lispector, and Guimarães Rosa. His research interests include biopolitics, postsecularism and Jewish messianism.
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Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Constructing/Dismantling Personhood Humanity as a Dispositif "Human Setup": On the History of the Notion of a Person Persona as Human's Ontological Status Beyond the Dispositif of a Person: What Remains Ethics of Impersonality Chapter 2. Depersonalizations: Modernism and Jewish Tradition Modernist Depersonalizations Fernando Pessoa: Depersonalization and Abulia Hermann Hesse: Through Multiplicity Toward Unity Impersonality in Brazilian Modernism Clarice Lispector: A Writer, a Mystic, a Messianist Chapter 3. Dialectics of Personhood: Infancy and Puberty Telephone as a Synecdoche of the Dispositif A Person as a Dispositif: Humanization as Banishment from Being Human Life as a Dialectic of Personalization and Depersonalization Fetal and Infant Life as an Impersonal State Domestication of Child, Animal, and God Maturing as the Emergence of a Person from an Impersonal Background Chapter 4. Crisis of Personhood: Horror and Ecstasy Home and Ontological Security The Vegetal Space of Impersonality Freedom and Beauty The Horror of Impersonality: Lispector and the "Heart of Darkness" The Ascetic-Mystical Experience: From "the Self" Toward Nothingness Layers and Seduction Biological Life as an Object of Disgust Chapter 5. Impersonalist Ethics: Toward Solidarity with the Bare Life The Political Dimension of the Bare Life Encounter with the Cockroach: Approaching the Bare Life Literary Study of Conditions for "Affirmative Biopolitics" Messianic Coda: "We shall be inhuman..." Bibliography Index
Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Constructing/Dismantling Personhood Humanity as a Dispositif "Human Setup": On the History of the Notion of a Person Persona as Human's Ontological Status Beyond the Dispositif of a Person: What Remains Ethics of Impersonality Chapter 2. Depersonalizations: Modernism and Jewish Tradition Modernist Depersonalizations Fernando Pessoa: Depersonalization and Abulia Hermann Hesse: Through Multiplicity Toward Unity Impersonality in Brazilian Modernism Clarice Lispector: A Writer, a Mystic, a Messianist Chapter 3. Dialectics of Personhood: Infancy and Puberty Telephone as a Synecdoche of the Dispositif A Person as a Dispositif: Humanization as Banishment from Being Human Life as a Dialectic of Personalization and Depersonalization Fetal and Infant Life as an Impersonal State Domestication of Child, Animal, and God Maturing as the Emergence of a Person from an Impersonal Background Chapter 4. Crisis of Personhood: Horror and Ecstasy Home and Ontological Security The Vegetal Space of Impersonality Freedom and Beauty The Horror of Impersonality: Lispector and the "Heart of Darkness" The Ascetic-Mystical Experience: From "the Self" Toward Nothingness Layers and Seduction Biological Life as an Object of Disgust Chapter 5. Impersonalist Ethics: Toward Solidarity with the Bare Life The Political Dimension of the Bare Life Encounter with the Cockroach: Approaching the Bare Life Literary Study of Conditions for "Affirmative Biopolitics" Messianic Coda: "We shall be inhuman..." Bibliography Index
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