Substance is subject is style: On the speculative poetics of Gillian Rose

• Published in: Thesis eleven Vol. 186; no. 1; pp. 97 - 115
• Main Author: Marks, Gregory
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London, England SAGE Publications 01.02.2025; Sage Publications Ltd
• Subjects: Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund (1903-1969); Contours; Gillian Rose; GWF Hegel; poetics; speculative fiction; hermeneutics

This article proposes a reading of philosopher Gillian Rose's works as predominated by the question of literary style. In contrast to Rose's professed antipathy for the linguistic and structuralist turns in 20th-century philosophy, this article contends that her thought makes recourse to d...