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This book is about culture and comparison. Starting with the history of the discipline of comparative literature and its forgotten relation to the positivist comparative method, it inquires into the idea of comparison in a postcolonial world. Comparison was Eurocentric by exclusion when it applied only to European literature, and Eurocentric by discrimination when it adapted evolutionary models to place European literature at the forefront of human development. This book argues that inclusiveness is not a sufficient response to postcolonial and multiculturalist challenges because it leaves the basis of equivalence unquestioned. The point is not simply to bring more objects under comparison, but rather to examine the process of comparison. The book offers a new approach to the either/or of relativism and universalism, in which comparison is either impossible or assimilatory, by focusing instead on various forms of "incommensurability"-comparisons in which there is a ground for comparison but no basis for equivalence. Each chapter develops a particular form of such cultural comparison from readings of important novelists (Joseph Conrad, Simone Schwartz-Bart), poets (Aimé Césaire, Derek Walcott), and theorists (Edouard Glissant, Jean-Luc Nancy).

Comparative literature --- anno 1900-1999 --- Caribbean Area --- Caribbean literature --- History and criticism. --- 82.091 --- 82:93 --- Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- Literatuur en geschiedenis --- 82:93 Literatuur en geschiedenis --- 82.091 Vergelijkende literatuurstudie --- History and criticism --- Caribbean area --- Littérature caribéenne --- 20e siècle --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature caribéenne --- 20e siècle

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Art --- Science --- Aesthetics --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1990-1999 --- Art and science --- Image (Philosophy) --- Representation (Philosophy) --- Representationalism (Philosophy) --- Representationism (Philosophy) --- Culture --- Philosophy --- Science and art

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What if psychoanalysis had chosen Antigone rather than Oedipus? This book traces the relation between ethics and desire in important philosophical texts that focus on femininity and use Antigone as their model. It shows that the notion of feminine desire is conditioned by a view of women as being prone to excesses and deficiencies in relation to ethical norms and rules. Sjöholm explains Mary Wollstonecraft's work, as well as readings of Antigone by G.W.F. Hegel, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Jacques Lacan, and Judith Butler. This book introduces the concept of the "Antigone complex" in order to illuminate the obscure and multifaceted question of feminine desire, which has given rise to the fascination of generations of philosophers and other theoreticians, as well as readers and spectators. At the same time the book argues for a notion of desire that is intrinsically related to ethics. The ethical question posed by Antigone, and explored in the book, is: what determines those actions that one must do, as opposed to those that one ought to do?

Antigone (Greek mythology). --- Desire (Philosophy). --- Femininity (Philosophy). --- Feminist ethics. --- Antigone (Greek mythology) --- Antigone (Griekse mythologie) --- Antigone (Mythologie grecque) --- Begeerte (Filosofie) --- Desire (Philosophy) --- Désir (Philosophie) --- Ethiek [Feministische ] --- Ethique féministe --- Femininity (Philosophy) --- Feminist ethics --- Feministische ethiek --- Féminité (Philosophie) --- Vrouwelijkheid (Filosofie) --- Philosophical anthropology --- Philosophy --- Ethics --- Feminism --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Antigone --- Antígona --- Antygona --- 安提戈涅 --- アンティゴネー --- אנטיגונה --- 안티고네 --- Антигона --- Антыгона --- Антігона --- أنتيجون --- Ἀντιγόνη

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944.028 --- Geschiedenis van Frankrijk: François I; Henri II; Charles IX; Henri III--(1498-1589) --- Political culture --- Political customs and rites --- History --- France --- Politics and government --- 944.028 Geschiedenis van Frankrijk: François I; Henri II; Charles IX; Henri III--(1498-1589) --- Customs and rites, Political --- Political rituals --- Rituals, Political --- Manners and customs --- Political anthropology --- Rites and ceremonies --- Culture --- Political science

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Cold War --- Political aspects --- Congo (Democratic Republic) --- United States --- Soviet Union --- History --- Foreign relations