书目名称 | On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum |
副标题 | Essays in Loving Str |
编辑 | William V. Spanos |
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概述 | Takes a unique, autobiographical approach to engagement with key modern philosophical concepts.Draws on direct personal experience with some of the twentieth century‘s most influential thinkers.Offers |
丛书名称 | Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination |
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描述 | .This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world’s population has been transformed into a society of refugees and émigrés seeking –indeed, demanding– an alternative way of political belonging. Focusing on the interregnum we have precariously occupied since the end of World War II—and especially after 9/11— it constitutes a series of genealogical chapters that trace the author’s journey from his experience as a prisoner of war in Nazi Germany to the horrific fire-bombing of Dresden in February 1945. In doing so, it explores his search for an intellectual vocation adequate to the dislocating epiphany he experienced in bearing witness to these traumatising events. Having subsequently lost faith in the logic of belonging perpetuated by the nation-state, Spanos charts how he began to look in the rubble of that zero zone for an alternative way of belonging: one in which the old binary —whose imperative was based on the violence of the Friend/enemy opposition— wasreplaced by a paradoxical loving strife that enriched rather than negated the potential of each side. The chapters in this book trace this errant vocational itinerary, from the author’s early undergradua |
出版日期 | Book 2016 |
关键词 | Hannah Arendt; Soren Kierkegaard; Martin Heidegger; T; S; Eliot; W; B; Yeats; Edward Said; Cornel West; Human |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47871-5 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-83846-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-47871-5Series ISSN 2946-4072 Series E-ISSN 2946-4080 |
issn_series | 2946-4072 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 |