Prefaces to the Diaphora: Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity
by Peter Carravetta
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Purdue University Press: West Lafayette, IN, 1991. Hardcover. Good. 6x1x9. [PHILOSOPHY]. Carravetta, Peter. "Prefaces to the Diaphora: Rhetorics, Allegory, and the Interpretation of Postmodernity." West Lafayette, IN: Purdue University Press, 1991. English language. Hardcover in dust jacket. Text with black and white illustrations. 9.5 x 6.25 x 1.25 in. 23 x 16 x 3 cm. 28 oz. xx, 345 pp. Cream cloth boards with black stamped lettering on spine. Jacket has rips, tears, use, rubbing. Stickers on inside front cover and free front endpaper. Price in pencil on half-title. Good Plus in Fair jacket. ISBN: 1557530041."The central concern of these eight studies and essays is the understanding and critique of culture at the shifty boundaries between the Modem and the Postmodern epochs. The author contends that what needs to be addressed is the very abyss, the spacetime between the Modern and the Postmodern worldviews, as well as the tension between aesthetics and ethics, critical discourse and the creative arts, in an effort to rethink multireferential processes of signification.The keystone of the book is Carravetta's notion of Diaphoristics, a theory of interpretation as dialogue. Diaphora, or difference, refers to the ancient quarrel between poetry and philosophy and signifies the movement between asymmetrical or heterogeneous forms of discourse that have, both historically and speculatively, borne the transfer of meaning from one semantic/hermeneutic field to another. The author focuses on the necessary risk and duplicity of criticism and develops nonagonistic models based on figuration and rhetorical dynamics. In two other chapters, the author steps back to reassess, in terms of the diaphora, the diverging notions of Postmodernity by the continental philosophers Lyotard and Vattimo. The collection ends with an essay on the long-overdue conversation between Vico and Heidegger.
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- 1991
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The dealer is an alum of the Rare Book School and the Colorado Antiquarian Book Seminar.
I started in the trade at the Wexner Center for the Arts bookstore, and previously worked for the Columbus Metropolitan Libraries, the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum, and the Indiana University Eskenazi Museum of Art's Center for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.
Besides selling books, I proofread them for Farrar, Straus and Giroux. jamespayne.info.
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