Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Preamble, or An Other Opening -- Introduction, or The Reflections of the Doppelgänger -- Chapter One. The Critique of Loneliness -- Chapter Two. The Subject of Modernity -- Chapter Three. The Task of the Doppelgänger -- Chapter Four. The Politics of the Doppelgänger -- Chapter Five. Self-Inscriptions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
In: Modern Language Initiative
The Doppelg+nger presents literature as the double of philosophy. This relation is historically rooted in the genesis of the doppelg+nger as literatureGs response to the philosophical focus on subjectivity: The term doppelg+nger was coined by the German author Jean Paul in 1796 as a critique of IdealismGs assertion of subjective autonomy, individuality, and human agency. This critique prefigures late twentieth-century extrapolations of the subject as decentered. From this perspective, the doppelg+nger has a family resemblance to current conceptualizations of subjectivity. It becomes the emblematic subject of modernity. This is the first significant study of the doppelg+ngerGs influence on philosophical thought. Reading literature philosophically and philosophy as literature, Vardoulakis examines authors such as Franz Kafka, Maurice Blanchot, and Alexandros Papadiamantes and philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Walter Benjamin, and Jacques Derrida to show how the doppelg+nger emerges as a hidden and unexplored element both in conceptions of subjectivity and in philosophyGs relation to literature.
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