The issue of the other has always been an urgent one, especially since
1980’s, when the political debates over race, gender, class,
culture, ethnicity, and post-colonialism took the central stage. The
Riddling between Oedipus and the Sphinx, Ontology, Hauntology, and
Heterologies of the Grotesque probes the polemic status of the other
and the dubious nature of the subject from a heterodox perspective of
an emblematic grotesque figure, the Sphinx—the mystical trickster
and the guardian of sacred knowledge in Egyptian culture. In Greek
mythology, Oedipus, the epitome of Western logos, solved the
Sphinx’s riddle with a single word, “Man.” This evocation for
the phantom of a solipsistic subject discloses, in effect, Oedipus’
latent grotesque disparity. The book explores the encounter of this
unlikely pair to inquire the riddling relationship between the
singular subject and the grotesque other in the context of modern
discourses of the subject and postmodern theories of the other.
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Ontology, Hauntology, and Heterologies of the Grotesque
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780761884781
Publisert
2025
Utgave
1. utgave
Utgiver
Bloomsbury USA
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
Forfatter