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ISBN 10: 1134483877
ISBN 13: 9781134483877
Author: Richard Kearney
Strangers, Gods and Monsters is a fascinating look at how human identity is shaped by three powerful but enigmatic forces. Often overlooked in accounts of how we think about ourselves and others, Richard Kearney skil lfully shows, with the help of vivid examples and illustrations, how the human outlook on the world is formed by the mysterious triumvirate of strangers, gods and monsters. In the first part of the book, he shows how the figure of stranger – the “barbarian” for ancient Greece, the ‘savage’ for imperial Europe – defines our own identity by the very idea that it is the Other, not we, who is unknown. He then goes on to examine the image of the monster, and with the aid of powerful examples from ancient Minotaurs to medieval demons and post-modern enemies, argues that human selfhood itself frequently contains a monstrous element. In the final part of the book Richard Kearney shows how many gods are still alive for people today testifying to the human psyche’s yearning to slip the shackles of our finitude and death. Throughout, Richard Kearney shows how strangers, gods and monsters do not merely reside in myths or fantasies but constitute a central part of our cultural unconscious. Above all, he argues that until we understand better that the Other resides deep within ourselves, we can have little hope of understanding how our most basic fears and desires manifest themselves in the external world and how we can learn to live with them.
Strangers Gods and Monsters Interpreting Otherness 1st Table of contents:
INTRODUCTION: STRANGERS, GODS AND MONSTERS
PART I
1. STRANGERS AND SCAPEGOATS
GENEALOGY OF THE SCAPEGOAT
DEMYTHOLOGIZING MONSTERS
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX: MYTHS, MONSTERS AND SCAPEGOATS
2. RIGHTS OF SACRIFICE
THE ALIEN SERIES
APOCALYPSE NOW REDUX: HEARTS OF DARKNESS
CONCLUSION
3. ALIENS AND OTHERS
BETWEEN HOSTILITY AND HOSPITALITY: DECONSTRUCTION AND OTHERNESS
STRANGERS TO OURSELVES: PSYCHOANALYSIS AND OTHERNESS
ONESELF-AS-ANOTHER: HERMENEUTICS AND OTHERNESS
4. EVIL, MONSTROSITY AND THE SUBLIME
A GENEALOGY OF EVIL
THE POSTMODERN SUBLIME
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
APPENDIX: DECONSTRUCTION AND THE SUBLIME
5. ON TERROR
IN THE WAKE OF TERROR
MONSTROUS ARTS
GODS AND MONSTERS
PHILOSOPHICAL RESPONSES
POLITICAL TERROR TODAY
CONCLUSION
PART II
6. HAMLET’S GHOSTS: FROM SHAKESPEARE TO JOYCE
SHAKESPEARE’S HAMLET
JOYCE’S HAMLET
GENEALOGY OF FATHER AND SON
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX: FROM MELANCHOLY TO MOURNING – PSYCHOANALYTIC READINGS
7. MELANCHOLY: BETWEEN GODS AND MONSTERS
THE EXISTENTIALIST ACCOUNT
THE GENEALOGICAL ACCOUNT
DÜRER’S MELANCHOLIA I
CONCLUSION
8. THE IMMEMORIAL: A TASK OF NARRATIVE
DILEMMAS OF REMEMBRANCE
A NARRATIVE PARADOX
DECONSTRUCTING MEMORY
HORROR AND THE INEFFABLE
THE LIMITS OF REPRESENTATION
A WAY BETWEEN
HERMENEUTICS OF SELF AND OTHER
CONCLUSION
9. GOD OR KHORA?
PLATO AND KHORA
PSYCHOANALYSIS AND KHORA
DECONSTRUCTION AND KHORA
REVELATION AND KHORA
DESERT FATHERS AND DESTINERRANCE
FROM KHORA TO THE KINGDOM
TOWARDS A GOD WHO MAY BE
APPENDIX: DERRIDA AND THE DOUBLE ABYSS
10. LAST GODS AND FINAL THINGS: FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY
FAITH OR REASON?
ONLY A GOD
THE LAST GOD
WHAT IF THE TRUTH WERE MONSTROUS?
DESTINY, FATE, AND THE SAVING GOD
POSSIBLE GODS
CONCLUSION
NOTES
INTRODUCTION: STRANGERS, GODS AND MONSTERS
1. STRANGERS AND SCAPEGOATS
2. RIGHTS OF SACRIFICE
3. ALIENS AND OTHERS
4. EVIL, MONSTROSITY AND THE SUBLIME
5. ON TERROR
6. HAMLET’S GHOSTS: FROM SHAKESPEARE TO JOYCE
7. MELANCHOLY: BETWEEN GODS AND MONSTERS
8. THE IMMEMORIAL: A TASK OF NARRATIVE
9. GOD OR KHORA?
10. LAST GODS AND FINAL THINGS: FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY
CONCLUSION
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