Around the Book(1st Edition) Systems and Literacy by ProfessorHenrySussman Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2011 by Fordham University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-3283-3, ISBN: 0-8232-3283-2
"Amid radical transformation and rapid mutation in the nature, transmission, and deployment of information and communications, Around the Book offers a status report and theoretically nuanced update on the traditions and medium of the book. What, it asks, are the book’s current prospects? The study highlights the most radical experiments in the book’s history as trials in what the author terms the “Prevailing Operating System” at play wi ..."
The Aesthetic Contract(1st Edition) Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity by ProfessorHenrySussman Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 1997 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-2843-0, ISBN: 0-8047-2843-7
"Ambitious in scope and innovative in concept, this book offers an overview and critique of the conventions surrounding artistic creativity and intellectual endeavor since the outset of "the broader modernity", which the author sees as beginning with the decline of feudalism and the Church. As a work of intellectual history, it suggests that art and the conventions associated with the artistic constitute a secular institution that has su ..."
The Aesthetic Contract(1st Edition) Statutes of Art and Intellectual Work in Modernity (History, Philosophy of History, Aesthetics) by ProfessorHenrySussman Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 1997 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-2842-3, ISBN: 0-8047-2842-9
"Maria Ruegg signifier lies precisely in what it does not say, and in the absence "it
" reveals: absence which points to a ... structural alternative in which presence
and absence each call the other forth" (ou la presence et l'absence prennent l'
une ..."
"Textual Studies Henry Sussman ... statements about the existence, power,
demands and refusals of Book, Dichtung, and Genre in Romantic and post-
Romantic literature, one feels ... accurate and pertinent descriptions of the
specific genre systems found in pre- literate, scribal, typographical and post-
typographical cultures."
"From the German Black Forest to the Romanian and Ukrainian shores where it flows into the Black Sea, Europe's second longest river connects ten countries, while its watershed covers four more. The Danube serves as an artery of a culturally diverse geographic region, frustrating attempts to divide Europe from non-Europe, and facilitating the flow of economic and cultural forms of international exchange. Yet the river has attracted surpri ..."
"This study advances contemporary postmodern/poststructural critical theory, literary criticism in particular, with the help of Mahāyāna—especially Ch’an/Seon (Chinese and Korean Zen)—Buddhist thought. The quest for theinfinity of the Other (West) and Emptiness or the true I (East) contributes to the exploration of the contemporary critical issues of ethics and infinity. Such an approach will awaken our sense of unrepresented, genuine tr ..."
"This is a guide, in theory and in practice, to how current technological changes have impacted our interaction with texts and with each other. Henry Sussman rereads pivotal moments in literary, philosophical and cultural modernity as anticipating the cybernetic discourse that has increasingly defined theory since the computer revolution. Cognitive science, psychoanalysis and systems theory are paralleled to current trends in literary an ..."
Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in the Movies (Psychoanalysis and Culture) (SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture (Paperback)) by Dr Jerrold R. Brandell M. D., ProfessorHenrySussman Paperback, 260 Pages, Published 2004 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-6082-5, ISBN: 0-7914-6082-7
"Looks at how therapy and the "talking cure" have been portrayed in the movies.Consisting of contributions from psychoanalysts and therapists, as well as authors in such fields as literature and cinema studies, Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients explores how therapy and therapists have been portrayed in the movies over the last seventy-five years. From the 1926 silent film Secrets of a Soul, to Hitchcock’s 1946 classic Spellbound, to t ..."
"Consisting of contributions from psychoanalysts and therapists, as well as authors in such fields as literature and cinema studies, Celluloid Couches, Cinematic Clients explores how therapy and therapists have been portrayed in the movies over the last seventy-five years. From the 1926 silent film Secrets of a Soul, to Hitchcock's 1946 classic Spellbound, to the recent Girl, Interrupted, the contributors look at how moviemakers view the ..."
SUNY Series in Psychoanalysis and Culture Ser. Psyche and Text : The Sublime and the Grandiose in Literature, Psychopathology, and Culture by ProfessorHenrySussman Hardcover, 233 Pages, Published 1993 by State University Of New York Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7914-1569-6, ISBN: 0-7914-1569-4
"Her understanding of the parallelism between the exhibitionisms of the
journalistic and psychoanalytical "subjects" is also indicative of what I will later
call "the fatal dialectic between the neuroses and the personality disorders." Her
articles have been reprinted in Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer (
New York: Vintage, 1990), 69, 71-78. 6. These authors, Balzac, Goncharov, and
Conrad, with respect to the formal exp ..."
"This book offers a selection of the best work on Lacan that has been published over the past ten years by RISS, a Swiss journal of Lacanian studies. Though focused on Lacan and Freud, the collection is partly about Germany itself, addressing questions of trauma, historical memory, politics, fascism, and democracy. The essays range from investigations of particular art forms such as music and tragedy to clinical studies of melancholia, d ..."
""Demarcating the Disciplines " was first published in 1986. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions.With publication of this volume, "Glyph " begins a new stage in its existence: the move from Johns Hopkins University Press to the University of Minnesota Press is accompanied by a change in ..."
"Explores the hidden political and ethical dimensions of the work of Samuel Beckett, an author who might otherwise be considered indifferent to such considerations.In this book, creative writers and critical theorists consider the work of Samuel Beckett from theoretical, postmodern, aesthetic, poetic, and feminist perspectives. Collectively, they search for the hidden political and ethical dimensions of Beckett, an author who might other ..."
Franz Kafka Geometrician of Metaphor by ProfessorHenrySussman Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 1982 by The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-2944-4, ISBN: 0-8018-2944-5
Franz Kafka Geometrician of Metaphor. by ProfessorHenrySussman Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1982 by The Johns Hopkins University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8018-2945-1, ISBN: 0-8018-2945-3