paul-denicola-literature-pure-mediality

1. Introduction
Table of Contents
1.1 Language and Meaning: The Structuralist Approach 4
1.2 19 th Century Developments: Kleist, Mach & Nietzsche 6
1.3 From Benjamin to Deleuze and Guattari 10
1.4 Derrida and the “Death of the Signified” 13
1.5 Kafka: Language and Communication 14
2. Moving Towards Pure Mediality:
2.1 Deconstructing the Teleological Perspective 19
2.3 Nietzsche and Binary Opposition 21
2.4 Benjamin and the “Un-mittelbar-keit” of Language 23
2.5 Derrida and Haunted Language 29
2.6 Kafka and the Language of Infinite Relation 32
3. Un-judging Judgment: Undecidability and Suspension in “The Judgment”
3.1 The Nature of Judgment 34
3.2 Undecidability in the Ancient Greek Tradition 37
3.3 A Literature of Re-Reading 39
3.4 Allusion: Hinting at Truth 41
3.5 Closure and Violence 44
3.6 Un-judging “The Judgment” 45
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