Rebuilding the profession : : comparative literature, intercultural studies and the humanities in the age of globalization, essays in honor of Mihai I. Spariosu / / edited by Dorothy Figueira.
This volume is meant to be a retrospective look at the field of Comparative Literature as it has developed in the past two decades, as well as a reflection on its future direction if it is to remain relevant (and innovative) as a field of study. From its inception in the second half of the twentieth...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Göttingen, Germany : : V & R unipress,, [2020] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2020 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Reflections on (In)Humanity.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Notes: | [1. Edition] |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Body
- Dorothy M. Figueira: Introduction
- Part I The Profession
- Dorothy M. Figueira: Chapter 1: How Have We Rebuilt the Profession?
- Introduction
- Pedagogies of Alterity
- Politics of Projects
- A Shared Crisis
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Gerald Gillespie: Chapter 2: The Way(s) Forward: Further Self-Mappings by the Motley Crew of International Comparative Literature
- Bibliography
- Stanley A. Corngold: Chapter 3: The Future of the Humanities in 1975
- Part II Spariosu, his Work, and his World
- Ovidiu Verdeş (1997): Chapter 4: Dionysus, Nietzsche, and Literature
- Vlad B. Jecan: Chapter 5: Towards Irenic Mixed Reality: An Experiment in Play and the Cybernetic Imagination
- Play of Replacement
- Plays of Replacement: The Matrix and The Machine Stops
- Irenic Alternatives: Story of Your Life, Ready Player One and the Quantum Relations Principle
- Bibliography
- Dong Yang: Chapter 6: Infinite Cartography: Spariosu, Deleuze, and the Practice of Knowledge
- The Encyclopedic Imagination and the Transcendental Touch on the World
- Cartographical Power and its Discontents: Mihai Spariosu and his Global Triad System
- Deleuzian Rhizome and an Empiricist Embrace of the World
- Latour's Detour and the Ethical Limit of Practice
- Bibliography
- Adela Fofiu: Chapter 7: An Auto-Ethnography of Hope
- Introduction
- A Journey through the Ecology of Life Missions
- A Closing Word
- Bibliography
- Corina-Mihaela Beleaua: Chapter 8: Practices of Intercultural Studies in Teaching Literature
- Bibliography
- Florin Berindeanu: Chapter 9: Mihai I. Spariosu Between Theory and Philosophy
- Victor Neumann: Chapter 10: The Romanian Anti-Totalitarian Revolt of 1989: The Role of Timișoara and the Beginnings of Political Change in Romania.
- The Intellectuals and the Masses during the 1989 Revolt
- The Banat of Timișoara during the Transition Years
- Conclusions
- Róbert Gáfrik: Chapter 11: Imagining the Orient in Central Europe: An Intercultural Studies Project
- Bibliography
- Part III The Divine, Animism, and Mimesis
- Mikhail Epstein: Chapter 12: Theses on Poor Faith
- What is Poor Faith?
- God as Person
- Science
- Theology of Resurrection
- Paths of God and Theodicy
- The Theology and Ethics of Singularity
- The Theology of Creativity
- Pop-Religion and Theocracy
- The Dynamics of Poor Faith
- Poor Messianism
- Gabriele Schwab: Chapter 13: Experimental Animisms: Humans and their Others
- The Fetishistic Animism
- The Artistic or Surrealist Animism
- The Animism of the Schizo
- The New Animisms of Polytemporal Pluriverses
- Monica Spiridon: Chapter 14: Reversed Mimesis: Real Life and the Rules of the Literary Game
- 1. Rules of Literature-Rules of Life
- 2. The Real World and the Templates of Literature
- 3. Literature versus Literature
- 4. Conclusions
- Bibliography
- Dragan Kujundžić: Chapter 15: Beyond Comparison: Auerbach's Comparative Literature as a Diasporic Experience
- Bibliography
- Frederick Turner: Tribute: An Olive Wreath for Mihai.