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• catalog abstract "In The Subject as Action: Transformation and Totality in Narrative Aesthetics, Alan Singer posits "narrative aesthetics" as a crucial link between post Enlightenment philosophical skepticism about human subjectivity and literary-theoretical skepticism about the autonomy of the text or artwork. Observing a vital complementarity between the narrative and the aesthetic (two realms often alienated from each other), Singer argues for the relevance of narrative logic to the critique of post-Cartesian subjectivity. Reciprocally, he demonstrates the relevance of rational norms of human agency to the study of narrative art. On one hand, Singer wants to salvage the critique of the subject from the metaphysical abstraction of idealist philosophies. On the other hand, he wants to save literary narrative from the ahistoricism and apoliticism to which it is often consigned. Each chapter juxtaposes a set of philosophical arguments about the dynamics of human agency with close readings of narrative literature. Rather than sketch a historical overview of Western narrative, Singer focuses on formal innovations that give a strong theoretical warrant for linking narrative to the realm of human action. Singer examines aesthetic theories in the works of Aristotle, Baumgarten, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Sartre, Adorno, and Goodman as they converge with the goals of social theories espoused by Schutz, Lukacs, Althusser, Foucault, and Giddens. The philosophical arguments are then mapped onto a literary tradition through examination of texts by Thomas Nashe, Laurence Sterne, Henry James, Maurice Blanchot, William Gaddis, and John Ashbery. Alan Singer asserts that "narrative aesthetics" must be used as a critical tool in ultimately resolving the current conflict between postmodern aestheticists, such as Lyotard, and anti-aesthetic communitarian ethicists, such as Habermas, who posit the realms of the aesthetic and the political as mutually exclusive. The Subject as Action will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the relation of narrative art to the spectrum of literary and philosophical theories that seek to define the human subject in modern culture.".
• catalog contributor b5905780.
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "Alan Singer asserts that "narrative aesthetics" must be used as a critical tool in ultimately resolving the current conflict between postmodern aestheticists, such as Lyotard, and anti-aesthetic communitarian ethicists, such as Habermas, who posit the realms of the aesthetic and the political as mutually exclusive. The Subject as Action will be a valuable resource for anyone interested in the relation of narrative art to the spectrum of literary and philosophical theories that seek to define the human subject in modern culture.".
• catalog description "Each chapter juxtaposes a set of philosophical arguments about the dynamics of human agency with close readings of narrative literature. Rather than sketch a historical overview of Western narrative, Singer focuses on formal innovations that give a strong theoretical warrant for linking narrative to the realm of human action. Singer examines aesthetic theories in the works of Aristotle, Baumgarten, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Sartre, Adorno, and Goodman as they converge with the goals of social theories espoused by Schutz, Lukacs, Althusser, Foucault, and Giddens. The philosophical arguments are then mapped onto a literary tradition through examination of texts by Thomas Nashe, Laurence Sterne, Henry James, Maurice Blanchot, William Gaddis, and John Ashbery. ".
• catalog description "In The Subject as Action: Transformation and Totality in Narrative Aesthetics, Alan Singer posits "narrative aesthetics" as a crucial link between post Enlightenment philosophical skepticism about human subjectivity and literary-theoretical skepticism about the autonomy of the text or artwork. Observing a vital complementarity between the narrative and the aesthetic (two realms often alienated from each other), Singer argues for the relevance of narrative logic to the critique of post-Cartesian subjectivity. Reciprocally, he demonstrates the relevance of rational norms of human agency to the study of narrative art. On one hand, Singer wants to salvage the critique of the subject from the metaphysical abstraction of idealist philosophies. On the other hand, he wants to save literary narrative from the ahistoricism and apoliticism to which it is often consigned. ".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-282) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: Prospect for a Narrative Aesthetics -- Ch. 1. The Methods of Form -- Ch. 2. The Totality of Desire: Toward a Historical Formalism -- Ch. 3. The Dis-Position of the Subject: Agency and Form in the Ideology of the Novel -- Ch. 4. The Voice of History / The Subject of the Novel -- Ch. 5. The Burden of Thematics: Transformation and Totality in Blanchot's Recit -- Ch. 6. The Figuration of Contingency: The Subject beyond Irony -- Ch. 7. Determining the Aesthetic: Beauty Beholds the I -- Ch. 8. Thinking Peripeteia / Peripetic Thinking.".
• catalog extent "x, 290 p. ;".
• catalog hasFormat "Subject as action.".
• catalog identifier "0472104713".
• catalog isFormatOf "Subject as action.".
• catalog isPartOf "The Body, in theory".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press,".
• catalog relation "Subject as action.".
• catalog subject "808.3 20".
• catalog subject "Fiction.".
• catalog subject "Literature Aesthetics.".
• catalog subject "Narration (Rhetoric)".
• catalog subject "PN212 .S56 1993".
• catalog subject "Subject (Philosophy)".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Prospect for a Narrative Aesthetics -- Ch. 1. The Methods of Form -- Ch. 2. The Totality of Desire: Toward a Historical Formalism -- Ch. 3. The Dis-Position of the Subject: Agency and Form in the Ideology of the Novel -- Ch. 4. The Voice of History / The Subject of the Novel -- Ch. 5. The Burden of Thematics: Transformation and Totality in Blanchot's Recit -- Ch. 6. The Figuration of Contingency: The Subject beyond Irony -- Ch. 7. Determining the Aesthetic: Beauty Beholds the I -- Ch. 8. Thinking Peripeteia / Peripetic Thinking.".
• catalog title "The subject as action : transformation and totality in narrative aesthetics / Alan Singer.".
• catalog type "text".