Image in Outline
Reading Lou Andreas-Salome
Published on 11. October 2012
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-1-4411-9975-1 (ISBN)
Description
Image in Outline introduces the reader to Lou Andreas-Salome's significant engagement with
modern thought. Through detailed explorations of some of her major texts, Brinker-Gabler examines
Andreas-Salome's contributions to contemporary discourses on meaning, perception, memory, and
the unconscious. Situating her analyses within Andreas-Salome's historical, social, and intellectual
contexts, this new reading utilizes a theoretical frame informed by thinkers such as Benjamin, Bergson,
and Freud, and current theoretical perspectives by Irigaray, Grosz, and Kristeva. Brinker-Gabler argues
that Andreas-Salome - committed as she was to the "double direction" of rigorous thought and individual nuancing - refocused dominant visions of gender, sexuality, culture, religion, and creativity through a female lens. In a "disenchanted world" (Weber), Andreas-Salome offered an image epistemology or "aesthetics of b(u)ilding," as Brinker-Gabler calls it, that seeks to retrieve the multilayered past embedded in individuals and cultural forms, thus providing positive accounts of sexual and cultural difference, experience, narcissism, and creativity in modern life.
modern thought. Through detailed explorations of some of her major texts, Brinker-Gabler examines
Andreas-Salome's contributions to contemporary discourses on meaning, perception, memory, and
the unconscious. Situating her analyses within Andreas-Salome's historical, social, and intellectual
contexts, this new reading utilizes a theoretical frame informed by thinkers such as Benjamin, Bergson,
and Freud, and current theoretical perspectives by Irigaray, Grosz, and Kristeva. Brinker-Gabler argues
that Andreas-Salome - committed as she was to the "double direction" of rigorous thought and individual nuancing - refocused dominant visions of gender, sexuality, culture, religion, and creativity through a female lens. In a "disenchanted world" (Weber), Andreas-Salome offered an image epistemology or "aesthetics of b(u)ilding," as Brinker-Gabler calls it, that seeks to retrieve the multilayered past embedded in individuals and cultural forms, thus providing positive accounts of sexual and cultural difference, experience, narcissism, and creativity in modern life.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
360 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-9975-1 (9781441199751)
DOI
CBID168025
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Person
Gisela Brinker-Gabler is Professor of Comparative Literature at The State University of New York at Binghamton, USA. She has previously taught at the University of Cologne (Germany), the University of Essen (Germany), and the University of Florida (USA). She is the author or editor of fourteen books, including Deutsche Dichterinnen vom 16. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart (1978, 5th revised and extended edition 2007) and Writing New Identities: Gender, Nation, and Immigration in Contemporary Europe (1996).
Content
Introduction /
Chapter One: Umriss--B(u)ilding Woman or Sexual Difference
/ Chapter Two: Andreas-Salome's Aesthetics
/ Chapter Three: Icon: B(u)ilding Russia or Cultural Difference
/ Chapter Four: Nachtrauer: B(u)ilding Rilke or Modern Creativity
/ Chapter Five: (Un)doing Modern Thought /
Bibliography/ Index
Chapter One: Umriss--B(u)ilding Woman or Sexual Difference
/ Chapter Two: Andreas-Salome's Aesthetics
/ Chapter Three: Icon: B(u)ilding Russia or Cultural Difference
/ Chapter Four: Nachtrauer: B(u)ilding Rilke or Modern Creativity
/ Chapter Five: (Un)doing Modern Thought /
Bibliography/ Index