The Royal Remains

The Royal Remains
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 286
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ISBN-10 : 9780226735344
ISBN-13 : 0226735346
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Book Synopsis The Royal Remains by : Eric L. Santner

Download or read book The Royal Remains written by Eric L. Santner and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The king is dead. Long live the king!" In early modern Europe, the king's body was literally sovereign—and the right to rule was immediately transferrable to the next monarch in line upon the king's death. In The Royal Remains, Eric L. Santner argues that the "carnal" dimension of the structures and dynamics of sovereignty hasn't disappeared from politics. Instead, it migrated to a new location—the life of the people—where something royal continues to linger in the way we obsessively track and measure the vicissitudes of our flesh. Santner demonstrates the ways in which democratic societies have continued many of the rituals and practices associated with kingship in displaced, distorted, and usually, unrecognizable forms. He proposes that those strange mental activities Freud first lumped under the category of the unconscious—which often manifest themselves in peculiar physical ways—are really the uncanny second life of these "royal remains," now animated in the body politic of modern neurotic subjects. Pairing Freud with Kafka, Carl Schmitt with Hugo von Hofmannsthal,and Ernst Kantorowicz with Rainer Maria Rilke, Santner generates brilliant readings of multiple texts and traditions of thought en route to reconsidering the sovereign imaginary. Ultimately, The Royal Remains locates much of modernity—from biopolitical controversies to modernist literary experiments—in this transition from subjecthood to secular citizenship. This major new work will make a bold and original contribution to discussions of politics, psychoanalysis, and modern art and literature.

The Castles, Palaces, and Prisons of Mary of Scotland

The Castles, Palaces, and Prisons of Mary of Scotland
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Total Pages : 556
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:HX15LT
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Book Synopsis The Castles, Palaces, and Prisons of Mary of Scotland by : Charles Mackie

Download or read book The Castles, Palaces, and Prisons of Mary of Scotland written by Charles Mackie and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Papers Read at the Royal Institute of British Architects

Papers Read at the Royal Institute of British Architects
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Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : OXFORD:555028311
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Download or read book Papers Read at the Royal Institute of British Architects written by and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Castles, Palaces, and Prisons of Mary Queen of Scots. ... With Notices of the Visits of King George IV. and Queen Victoria to Their Ancestral Domains. New Edition

The Castles, Palaces, and Prisons of Mary Queen of Scots. ... With Notices of the Visits of King George IV. and Queen Victoria to Their Ancestral Domains. New Edition
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Total Pages : 552
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ISBN-10 : BL:A0018556503
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Book Synopsis The Castles, Palaces, and Prisons of Mary Queen of Scots. ... With Notices of the Visits of King George IV. and Queen Victoria to Their Ancestral Domains. New Edition by : Charles Mackie

Download or read book The Castles, Palaces, and Prisons of Mary Queen of Scots. ... With Notices of the Visits of King George IV. and Queen Victoria to Their Ancestral Domains. New Edition written by Charles Mackie and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gestural Imaginaries

Gestural Imaginaries
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 353
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ISBN-10 : 9780190659387
ISBN-13 : 0190659386
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Book Synopsis Gestural Imaginaries by : Lucia Ruprecht

Download or read book Gestural Imaginaries written by Lucia Ruprecht and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gestural Imaginaries offers a new interpretation of European modernist dance by addressing it as guiding medium in a vibrant field of gestural culture that ranged across art and philosophy.

The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle

The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle
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Total Pages : 626
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ISBN-10 : CHI:108264188
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Download or read book The Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle written by and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose

Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781501330971
ISBN-13 : 1501330977
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Book Synopsis Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose by : Marie Kolkenbrock

Download or read book Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler’s Prose written by Marie Kolkenbrock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the function of the invocation of destiny in the increasingly secularized era of turn-of-the-century Vienna? By exploring this question, Stereotype and Destiny in Arthur Schnitzler's Prose offers a new psycho-sociological perspective on the narrative works of Arthur Schnitzler. While Vienna 1900 as a site of crisis has been established in the scholarship, this book focuses on the presence of forces that deny the existence of said crisis and work to contain its subversive and critical potential. Stereotype and destiny emerge in Schnitzler's prose texts as a form of these counter-critical forces. In her readings, Kolkenbrock shows that stereotype and destiny serve as an interrelated coping mechanism for a central psychological conflict of modernity: the paradoxical need to be recognized as 'normal' and 'special' at the same time. While, through the complex of "stereotype and destiny," Schnitzler's prose addresses central modern questions of identity and subjecthood, Kolkenbrock's close readings also reveal how the texts inscribe themselves aesthetically in the literary tradition of Romanticism and as such offer crucial sources for understanding Schnitzler's representations of embattled subjecthood within broader social and aesthetic traditions.