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Book SynopsisHow do we read after the so-called death of literature? Graff Zivin elaborates
anarchaeological reading: reading for the blind spots, errors, points of opacity or untranslatability. Through interdiscursive exposure between continental philosophy and Argentine literature, art, and film, Graff Zivin shows how anarchaeological reading radicalizes the possibility of justice.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Ethical and Political Thinking after Literature | 1
Part I. Anarchaeologies
Misunderstanding Literature | 21
Toward an Anarchaeological Latinamericanism | 31
Part II. The Ethical Turn
Ethics against Politics | 53
Levinas in Latin America | 60
Part III. Violent Ethics
Abraham’s Double Bind | 77
Untimely Ethics: Deconstruction and Its Precursors | 89
Part IV. Political Thinking after Literature
The Metapolitics of Allegory | 107
The Aesthetics and Politics of Error | 121
Part V. Exposure and Indisciplinarity
Toward a Passive University | 139
Afterword: Truth and Error in the Age of Trump | 153
Acknowledgments | 159
Notes | 163
Bibliography | 177
Index | 187
