... cosmopolitics empowerment “Bartleby, the Scrivener” political technique ...

... of political technique is proposed as a way to acknowledge the artifices required in doing politics. Herman Melville's celebrated scrivener Bartleby is proposed as a figure of the “idiot,” as implied by cosmopolitical matters of concern, but it is the narrator of the tale, the lawyer, who is focused on here...

..., the Scrivener,” Henry James’s The Wings of the Dove , and Franz Kafka’s The Trial —but, more crucially, also outlines the implications that Žižek’s work holds for literary criticism and theory more generally—implications that, as the book’s ensuing chapters demonstrate, span multiple literary historical...