{"product_id":"unspeakable-subjects-jacques-lezra-9780804727785","title":"Unspeakable Subjects: The Genealogy of the Event in Early Modern Europe","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn groundbreaking readings linking works of Descartes, Shakespeare, and Cervantes with contemporary revisions of Freud and Nietzsche, \u003ci\u003eUnspeakable Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e argues that the concepts and discourses that have come to define European modernity--the subject's extension and responsibility, genealogies of intention and of freedom, the literary, legal, and medical construction of the body, among others--arise as strategies for evading a profound redefinition of the nature of \u003ci\u003eevents\u003c\/i\u003e in early modern Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNegotiating the often competing claims of rhetorical reading and cultural analysis, Lezra reassesses the grounds of literary and philosophical history as a materialist practice of eventful reading. His original accounts of \u003ci\u003eDon Quixote\u003c\/i\u003e, Descartes's \u003ci\u003eSecond Meditation\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRegulae\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eMeasure for Measure\u003c\/i\u003e tack between linguistic, psychoanalytic, and cultural materialist approaches to define and discuss the double aspect of the event in early modern literature and philosophy, and in Freudian and Heideggerian critical discourse: the event is at once an accident, the unpredictable, deontic intrusion of the empirical in idealizing schemes, \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e the disclosing and recollecting of a subject's relation to discursive and cultural morphologies in which empirical events are said properly to take place.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe advent of \"modernity,\" \u003ci\u003eUnspeakable Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e argues, arises as the novel account of the permanently interrupted negotiation between the event's deontic and its morphological aspects. If \u003ci\u003eUnspeakable Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e considers on this level the \"singularities\" of textual events, it also seeks to show their complex relation to the \"singularities\" of the forms given material history.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing upon such varied sources as the proclamations of James I, the law of entail, Renaissance treatises on typography, and documents on Jacobean and Elizabethan privateering, as well as accounts of the \"events\" of May 1968 and of Lacan's treatment of the \u003ci\u003efort-da\u003c\/i\u003e game, and of the cultural uses of the figure of Don Quixote in Spanish proto-Falangist thought, the author shows that the institutional setting and conditions for literary and philosophical speech-acts, and the graphic constraints upon the bodies that such acts support, also take shape according to patterns set in response to the instability of the event.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jacques Lezra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804727783\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804727785\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.83lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.06d","brand":"Jacques Lezra","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48448967213311,"sku":"9780804727785","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dbf2e5c7-7f85-4fab-b92b-a668bedb040b.jpg?v=1777261381","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unspeakable-subjects-jacques-lezra-9780804727785","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}