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The paradoxes of posterity / Benjamin Hoffmann ; translated by Alan J. Singerman.

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"Examines the paradoxes inherent in the search for symbolic immortality, arguing that there is only one truly serious literary problem: the transmission of texts to posterity"--

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Hoffmann, Benjamin, 1985- (Author)
Other Authors: Singerman, Alan J. (Translator)
Other title:Paradoxes de la postérité. English.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2020]
Subjects:
Authorship > Psychological aspects.
Authorship > Philosophy.
Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Mortality.
Authorship > Philosophy
Authorship > Psychological aspects
Mortality
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: why do people write?
  • First paradox : the current concert and the distant melody
  • Second paradox : the lottery and the ruse
  • Third paradox : the renunciation and the reward
  • Fourth paradox : the proper noun and the common noun
  • Fifth paradox : the flow and the entity
  • Sixth paradox : the distance and the judgement
  • Seventh paradox : the Rosetta Stone and Agrippina's Thrush
  • Eighth paradox : the manuscript and the USB key
  • Ninth paradox : the comet and the astronomer
  • Conclusion : why do people (still) write?

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