Agonistics: Arenas of Creative ContestJanet Lungstrum, Elizabeth Sauer This book examines the ambiguities inherent in the concept of the agon as a motivating, conflictual force behind creative and social expression. The notion of agonistics extends far beyond the literary fame lent it by Harold Bloom to embrace all aspects of culture. The editors blend theoretical sophistication with an interdisciplinary approach and reposit the agon in a new, broad context for postmodern inquiry. Taking their inspiration from Friedrich Nietzsche's essay "Homer's Contest," Lungstrum and Sauer trace the evolution of the agon: from its vital function in ancient Greece, through modernity, and onward. |
Contents
An Introduction Janet Lungstrum and Elizabeth Sauer | 1 |
Contests in Cultural Philosophy | 33 |
Friedrich Nietzsche Translated by Jordan Dieterich and Janet Lungstrum | 35 |
Nietzsche the Greeks Eternal Recurrence Benjamin C Sax | 46 |
Hegel Derrick and the Closure of Philosophy HI Arkady Plotnitsky | 70 |
The Prophets War against Prophecy Marcus Paul Bullock | 92 |
Psychoanalytic and Racial Conflicts | 109 |
Agonistics in Psychoanalysis Volney P Gay | 111 |
On the Agon and the Creative Impulse John A McCarthy | 199 |
Miltons Discourses of the Divided Self Elizabeth Sauer | 226 |
Preordained Rivalry in Joyces Finnegans Wake Andrew Schmitz | 240 |
Henry Jamess Backward Glance at the Agon of Composition Cecile MazzuccoThan | 256 |
Agons of Gender and the Body | 273 |
Lisabeth During | 275 |
John Hoberman | 293 |
Cynthia Willett | 305 |
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