Writing of the Formless: Jose Lezama Lima and the End of Time

Writing of the Formless: Jose Lezama Lima and the End of Time (Lit Z)

In this book, Jaime RodrÃguez Matos proposes the â€œformlessâ€ as a point of departure in thinking through the relationship between politics and time. Thinking through both literary and political writings around the Cuban Revolution, RodrÃguez Matos explores the link between abstract symbolic procedures and various political experiments that have sought to give form to a principle of sovereignty based on the category of representation. In doing so, he proposes the formless as the limit of modern and contemporary reflections on the meaning of politics while exploring the philosophical consequences of a formless concept of temporality for the critique of metaphysics.

RodrÃguez Matos takes the writing and thought of JosÃ© Lezama Lima as the guiding thread in exploring the possibility of a politicity in which time is imagined beyond the disciplining functions it has had throughout the metaphysical traditionâ€”a time of the absence of time, in which the absence of time no longer means eternity.
Country USA
Manufacturer Modern Language Initiative
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2016-12-01

Writing of the Formless: Jose Lezama Lima and the End of Time (Lit Z)