The Doppelganger

Literature's Philosophy

By: Dimitris Vardoulakis

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The Doppelganger or Double presents literature as the "double" of philosophy. There are historical reasons for this. The genesis of the Doppelganger is literature's response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity. The Doppelganger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of Idealism's assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality and human agency. This critique prefigures post-War extrapolations of the subject as decentred. From this perspective, the Doppelganger has a "family resemblance" to current conceptualizations of subjectivity. It becomes the emblematic subject of modernity.
This is the first significant study on the Doppelganger's influence on philosophical thought. The Doppelganger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophy's relation to literature. Vardoulakis demonstrates this by employing the Doppelganger to read literature philosophically and to read philosophy as literature. The Doppelganger then appears instrumental in the self-conception of both literature and philosophy.

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" ... Extremely complex and ambitious, bringing together philosophy, literary theory and criticism, and proposing pregnant and rich readings of philosophical and literary texts belonging to different epochs and traditions ..." -Critical Horizons "This provocative and richly corroborated thesis, one might conclude after having read the book, deserves attention and further investigation." -Orbis Litterarum "A bold and complex treatment of a classic literary figure that will make this book standard reference for years to come, both in what it contributes to modernist criticism and in how it reconceptualizes the terrain of contemporary literary theory." -- -Stathis Gougouris Columbia University " ... A tour de force... [Vardoulakis'] study of the figure of the doppelganger is ambitiously conceived, and involves an interrogation of material that cuts across literature, criticism and philosophy." -Colloquy: text theory critique

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Preface	p. ix
Preamble, or an Other Opening	p. xi
Introduction, or The Reflections of the Doppelgänger	p. 1
The Critique of Loneliness: The Genesis of the Doppelgänger	p. 11
Isolation: Toward a Political Placement of the Doppelgänger	p. 11
Harrington's ôFliesö: Kant's Madness	p. 16
The Black Nothing and the White Nothing: Jean Paul's	p. 23
The Return of Negation: Freud's ôThe 'Uncanny'ö	p. 37
ôDouble Actsö and Transformation	p. 53
The Subject of Modernity: Law and Temporality in Alexandros Papadiamantes	p. 66
…and …: The Doppelgänger as the Subject of Modernity	p. 66
Community with the Dead: Self-Confession in The Murderess	p. 75
The Penumbra: Obligations	p. 90
The Task of the Doppelgänger: Jean Paul as Collocutor of Maurice Blanchot	p. 106
The Politics of the Doppelgänger: Universal History and Cosmopolitanism	p. 135
Automatism, Autonomy	p. 135
The Subject of History in Walter Benjamin	p. 144
Displacement: Figuring the Cosmopolitan in Alasdair Gray's: Poor Things	p. 165
Self-Inscriptions: Failing Kafka and Benjamin	p. 192
The Pure Machine's Gambit: Benjamin's ôThesis Iö	p. 192
World Theater and Nature Theater	p. 202
Kafka's ôLost Gestureö	p. 218
Lying with Benjamin	p. 232
Notes	p. 249
Bibligraphy	p. 307
Index	p. 325
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