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The Abject Life of Things h.c. andersen's sentimentality
- Author(s):
- Anthony Adler (see profile)
- Date:
- 2017
- Group(s):
- LLC 18th- and Early-19th-Century German, TC Philosophy and Literature, TM Literary and Cultural Theory
- Subject(s):
- Children's literature, Philosophy, Continental, Critical theory, Danish literature, Germanic literature
- Item Type:
- Article
- Tag(s):
- #abjection, #sentimentality, #subjectivity, #ontology, #new materialism, Continental philosophy
- Permanent URL:
- http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M6M11F
- Abstract:
- The following paper attempts a philosophically rigorous interpretation of H.C. Andersen’s tales. Through a radically conceived sentimentality --- the unmediated juxtaposition of the abjection of things, conceived as a paradoxical “desire for desire” having no place in the world, with a cruel, apathetic gaze --- Andersen challenges the existence of the soul or subjectivity as what, by combining the theoretical gaze with contemplative pleasure, grants coherence to experience. Thus undermining not only Romantic self-reflection, and its suturing of philosophy to criticism, but Plato’s erotic psychology, Andersen inaugurates a new philosophical literature: a writing for children cultivating an openness
- Metadata:
- xml
- Published as:
- Journal article
- Status:
- Published
- Last Updated:
- 5 years ago
- License:
- All Rights Reserved
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