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This book explores Clarice Lispector's work through the lens of "affirmative biopolitics," highlighting the ontological and ethical deadlock between personality and impersonality. It analyzes her complex anthropological vision and its metaphysical implications, focusing on themes of mystical and messianic nature rooted in Jewish tradition.
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AcknowledgementsIntroductionChapter 1. Constructing/Dismantling PersonhoodHumanity as a Dispositif
"Human Setup": On the History of the Notion of a Person
Persona as Human's Ontological Status
Beyond the Dispositif of a Person: What Remains
Ethics of Impersonality
Chapter 2. Depersonalizations: Modernism and Jewish TraditionModernist Depersonalizations
Fernando Pessoa: Depersonalization and Abulia
Hermann Hesse: Through Multiplicity Toward Unity
Impersonality in Brazilian Modernism
Clarice Lispector: A Writer, a Mystic, a Messianist
Chapter 3. Dialectics of Personhood: Infancy and PubertyTelephone as a Synecdoche of the Dispositif
A Person as a Dispositif: Humanization as Banishment from Being
Human Life as a Dialectic of Personalization and Depersonalization
Fetal and Infant Life as an Impersonal State
Domestication of Child, Animal, and God
Maturing as the Emergence of a Person from an Impersonal Background
Chapter 4. Crisis of Personhood: Horror and EcstasyHome and Ontological Security
The Vegetal Space of Impersonality
Freedom and Beauty
The Horror of Impersonality: Lispector and the "Heart of Darkness"
The Ascetic-Mystical Experience: From "the Self" Toward Nothingness
Layers and Seduction
Biological Life as an Object of Disgust
Chapter 5. Impersonalist Ethics: Toward Solidarity with the Bare LifeThe Political Dimension of the Bare Life
Encounter with the Cockroach: Approaching the Bare Life
Literary Study of Conditions for "Affirmative Biopolitics"
Messianic Coda: "We shall be inhuman..."BibliographyIndex
A propos de l'auteur
Wojciech Sawala is an assistant professor in the Department of Portuguese at Adam Mickiewicz University of Poznan, Poland. Comparatist and Latin Americanist, he specializes in the continent's twentieth-century narrative classics, including Borges, Cortázar, Lispector, and Guimarães Rosa. His research interests include biopolitics, postsecularism and Jewish messianism.
