The prestigious “Anthropos” devotes a monograph to Manuel Asensi’s theory of criticism as sabotage.

Full-University Professor Manuel Asensi.

The prestigious journal has published a special issue (nº 237), entitled 'Manuel Asensi’s Criticism as sabotage', dedicated to the figure of the professor of the University of Valencia Manuel Asensi and his theoretical approach called “critical as sabotaje”, a new way of reading the humanistic and scientific texts.

The edition of this monograph, by Beatriz Ferrús and Mauricio Zabalgoitia, has had the collaboration of teachers from Europe, - among these, Professor Manuel E. Vazquez , also from the University of Valencia - , Latin America and the United States, and is configured at the same time as a tribute and a thorough investigation of the ideas expressed by Manuel Asensi in his book 'Criítica y sabotaje' (Anthropos / Siglo XXI 2011).

 Asensi presents his theory in a time when research on literature and art, and discourse in general, seemed to have reached an impasse. Criticism as sabotage of the Valencian Full University Professor overcomes the paradox of essentialism/non- essentialism and proposes a syllogistic model of humanistic and scientifics texts.

 In open discussion with deconstruction, cultural studies and different  poststructural currents, and anchored in the roots of medieval Arab theorists such as Averroes, Avicenna and Al- Farabi, Manuel Asensi develops a new analysis methodology that revives criticism and political virtues of the humanities.

 Manuel Asensi is Full-University Professor of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature at the University of Valencia. He studied philosophy and philology, and his research has focused on the history of literary theory, in film analysis, in the relations between literature and philosophy , and art and philosophy criticism. He is coordinator of the Independent Study Program of the MACBA, art critic in the supplement 'Cultures' of the newspaper La Vanguardia. Directs the journal Prosopopeya . Journal of contemporary criticism. And he has been visiting professor at various universities in North America, Europe and Latin America .

 Among his most important publications  are included ‘Teoría de la lectura (para una crítica paradójica)’ (Madrid, Hiperión, 1986); ‘La teoría fragmentaria del círculo de Iena: Friedrich Schlegel’ (València, Amós Belinchón editor, 1991); ‘Espectropoética: Derrida lector de Marx’ (València, Ediciones Episteme, eutopías colection, 1994); ‘Literatura y filosofía’ (Madrid, Síntesis, 1995); ‘Historia de la teoría de la literatura (desde los inicios hasta el siglo XIX)’, vol. I (València, Tirant lo Blanch, 1998); ‘J. Hillis Miller or Boustrophedonic Reading/Others’, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1999; ‘Historia de la teoría de la literatura (el siglo XX hasta los años setenta)’, vol. II, (València, Editorial Tirant lo Blanch, 2003); ‘Los años salvajes de la teoría. Ph. Sollers, Tel Quel y la génesis del pensamiento post-estructural francés’ (València, Tirant lo Blanch); ‘Joan Colom o el devenir puta del fotógrafo’, in Cuadernos de Filología, 2007; ‘La subalternidad borrosa: un poco más de debate en torno a la subalternidad’, introduction to his own traduction an critic edition to Spivak’s book, and ‘¿Pueden hablar los subalternos?’ (Barcelona, Ediciones del MACBA, 2009).

 

 

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