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. |
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Contents
An Introduction Janet Lungstrum and Elizabeth Sauer | 1 |
Friedrich Nietzsche Translated by Jordan Dieterich and Janet Lungstrum | 35 |
Nietzsche the Greeks Eternal Recurrence Benjamin C Sax | 46 |
Hegel Derrida and the Closure of Philosophy Arkady Plotnitsky | 70 |
The Prophets War against Prophecy Marcus Paul Bullock | 92 |
Agonistics in Psychoanalysis Volney P Gay | 109 |
Lorna Martens | 127 |
Freud and the Jewishness of the Creative Sander L Gilman | 150 |
Miltons Discourses of the Divided Self Elizabeth Sauer | 224 |
Preordained Rivalry in Joyces Finnegans Wake Andrew Schmitz | 238 |
Henry Jamess Backward Glance at the Agon of Composition Cecile MazzuccoThan | 254 |
Lisabeth During | 273 |
John Hoberman | 291 |
Cynthia Willett | 303 |
Arendt and Le Guin on World Creation George A Trey | 323 |
Notes on Contributors | 345 |
The Question of Race in Detection Nancy A Harrowitz | 175 |
On the Agon and the Creative Impulse John A McCarthy | 197 |
Index | 349 |
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