Tracing Global Democracy : : Literature, Theory, and the Politics of Trauma /

Tracing Global Democracy : : Literature, Theory, and the Politics of Trauma / / Vladimir Biti.

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Focused on the recently hotly debated topic at the crossroads of various human and social sciences, this book investigates the emergence of the cosmopolitan idea of literature and its impact on the reconfiguration of the European and non-European political spaces. The birthplace of this idea is its...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2016 Part 1
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Biti, Vladimir,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2016]
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Culture & Conflict , 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 394 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contents
  • Introduction: The Cosmopolitan Axis: Agencies and/or Enablers
  • Part I: Toward a Global Community: The Emergence of the Modern Idea of Literature
  • 1. The Divided Legacy of the Republic of Letters: Emancipation and Trauma
  • 2. The Fissured Identity of Literature: National Universalism and/or Cosmopolitan Nationalism
  • 3. The Janus Face of Literary Bildung: Education and/or Self-Formation?
  • 4. Who Voices Universal History? Kant’s “Mankind” and/or Herder’s “Nature”
  • 5. Who Worlds the Literature? Goethe’s Weltliteratur and Globalization
  • Part II: An Observer under Observation: The Cosmopolitan Legacy of Modern Theory
  • 6. Interiorizing the Exteriority: The Cosmopolitan Authorization of the Theoretical Truth
  • 7. The Narrative of Permanent Displacement: Early German Romanticism and Its Theoretical Afterlife
  • 8. The Oppositional Literary Transcendental: The Russian Formalist Rewriting of Early Romanticist Cosmopolitanism
  • 9. The All-Devouring Modern Mind: Bakhtin’s Cosmopolitan Self
  • 10. Countering the Empirical Evidence: From Immigrant Cosmopolitanism to a Cosmopolitanism of the Disregarded
  • 11. Political and/or Literary Community: From Class to Messianic Cosmopolitanism
  • 12. Literature as Deterritorialization: New Vistas for Democracy?
  • Epilogue: The Practice of Recommencing: Toward a Cosmopolitanism of the Dispossessed Belonging
  • References
  • Index

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