Oblation: Essays, Parables, Paradoxes

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dc.contributor.authorBowker, M.H.
dc.date.accessioned2024-12-07T04:46:22Z
dc.date.available2024-12-07T04:46:22Z
dc.date.issued2024-11-06
dc.date.updated2024-12-07T04:46:17Z
dc.descriptionPublication status: ACTIVE
dc.description.abstractElements of this book, Oblation: Essays, Parables, Paradoxes, defy reason. They do so for good reason. Much of what we do, much of what we think, is oblation: sacrifice, offering, to something or someone. The root of “oblation” is “to draw near” or “to dwell in.” It refers to what is brought unto the altar, literal or proverbial — the profoundest oblation being what binds us together, our very souls, our dearest loves, indistinguishable from ourselves, our Isaacs on our Mount Moriahs. The natures of our oblations characterize our relationships to objects great and small, e.g., Lords and loved ones, groups and masses of signifiers. Oblative transactions promise meaning, yet we are full of uncertainty. What is it that cries out for oblation? How do we hear its voice? Are we, in fact, called, or do we, on the contrary, offer every bit gratuit? Why, as Albert Camus famously remarked, do “the stage sets collapse” as we offer ourselves to life’s routine? In Oblation, M.H. Bowker considers these questions in a series of essays touching upon figures such as Franz Kafka, Edgar Allan Poe, Baron van Münchhausen, and Jacques Lacan, unraveling themes of loss, hatred, and the Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Interspersed with brief parables and paradoxes, Bowker's essays push us to wonder who or what we are offering ourselves and others to – and how we get away with this.
dc.description.versionVoR
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.53288/0520.1.00
dc.identifier.isbn9781685712020
dc.identifier.isbn9781685712037
dc.identifier.otherc4cc39f9-d72b-4e83-9813-e98f87186331
dc.identifier.urihttps://thoth-arch.lib.cam.ac.uk/handle/1811/825
dc.languageENG
dc.publisherpunctum books
dc.rightsEmbargo: none
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
dc.subjectHPQ
dc.subjectJMAF
dc.subjectPHI005000
dc.subjectPSY026000
dc.subjectQDTQ
dc.subjectBaron van Münchhausen
dc.subjectEdgar Allan Poe
dc.subjectFranz Kafka
dc.subjecthatred
dc.subjectJacques Lacan
dc.subjectloss
dc.subjectMunchausen syndrome by proxy
dc.subjectpsychoanalysis
dc.subjectreparation
dc.subjectsacrifice
dc.titleOblation: Essays, Parables, Paradoxes
dc.typehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2f33

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