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On Anachronism

Hardback

Main Details

Title On Anachronism
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jeremy Tambling
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:192
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreLiterary theory
ISBN/Barcode 9780719082443
ClassificationsDewey:809
Audience
General
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Manchester University Press
Imprint Manchester University Press
Publication Date 1 July 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

On Anachronism joins together Shakespeare and Proust as the great writers of love to show that love is always anachronistic, and never more so when it is homosexual. Drawing on Nietzsche, Freud, Heidegger, Derrida, Blanchot and Levinas and Deleuze, difficult but essential theorists of the subject of 'being and time' and 'time and the other' the book examines why speculation on time has become so crucial within modernity. Through the related term 'anachorism', it considers how discussion of time always turns into discussion of space, and how this, too, can never be quite defined. It speculates on chance and thinks of ways in which a quality of difference within time - heterogeneity, anachronicity - is essential to think of what is meant by 'the other'. The book examines how contemporary theory considers the future and its relation to the past as that which is inescapable in the form of trauma. It considers what is meant by 'the event', that which is the theme of all post-Nietzschean theory and which breaks in two conceptions of time as chronological. -- .

Author Biography

Jeremy Tambling is Professor of Literature at University of Manchester -- .