The practice of Citation and the End of the Bourgeois Epoch
The practice of Citation and the End of the Bourgeois Epoch
Author(s): Tatjana RosićSubject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Fakultet za medije i komunikacije - Univerzitet Singidunum
Keywords: Radomir Konstantinović; Serbian contemporary; novel; intertextuality; citation; subject; father figure; son-narrator; bourgeois epoch; public speech
Summary/Abstract: In his autobiographical novel The Death of Descartes (1996), Radomir Konstantinović, as the first person son-narrator, reveals a phantasmal structure of the European humanistic tradition in which the practice of citation of great names and father figures is no longer a practice of subject constitution, but of subject cancellation. The paper explores the way in which the transition from the Law of the Father and the bourgeois epoch of masculinity towards the Sin of the Son and the post-humanist epoch of masculinity is announced and embodied in Konstantinovic’s novel.
Journal: Belgrade Journal of Media and Communications
- Issue Year: 1/2012
- Issue No: 02
- Page Range: 57-69
- Page Count: 13
- Language: English