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Itinerary Itinerary
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Toward a Hybrid Genealogy of Idiocy Toward a Hybrid Genealogy of Idiocy
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Jesus Was an Idiot Jesus Was an Idiot
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Idiots in History and the History of Idiots Idiots in History and the History of Idiots
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The Public Idiot The Public Idiot
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Idiotic Bare Life I Idiotic Bare Life I
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Idiotic Bare Life II Idiotic Bare Life II
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Idiotic Bare Life III Idiotic Bare Life III
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The Idiot Pedant The Idiot Pedant
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The Idiot Pedant’s First Philosophy The Idiot Pedant’s First Philosophy
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6 Idiocy on the Verge of the Novel
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Published:November 2015
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Abstract
The final two chapters belong together and explore in genealogical detail the nature of a novelist’s authorial voice in relationship to the problem of History (the grand march of reason). These two chapters do so by broadly taking up the question of imitation (μίμησις) or repetition in relationship to the universe of the novel. How does the novel take itself up again when it does not claim the power to represent itself to itself and when its compositional forms are subject to ongoing negotiation? The novel does not recognize itself because it both eschews representation (of its universe and of itself) and continues to experiment with its forms. Nonetheless it is possible to speak of a history of the novel, albeit a history that is a revenge on the grand march of self-representation that we call History. What is this elusive temporality that allows the novel to develop discernible lineages without ceasing to be a question to itself? How do we grasp the history of the novel, “which is not a mere succession of events but an intentional pursuit of values” (Art of the Novel, 154)? Given that this present study locates itself in the mobile border between the universe of philosophy and the universe of the novel, these two chapters address the problem at hand by examining the borderline persona of the idiot. This chapter begins with a consideration of Nietzsche and then traces this figure from Saint Paul via Cusanus, Descartes, and Ignatius of Loyola.
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