A Responsibility to the World : : Saramago, Politics, Philosophy / / Burghard Baltrusch, Carlo Salzani, and Kristof Vanhoutte (editors).

• Superior document: Ibero-Romance Studies in Literature and Translatology - Studies in Contemporary Literature ; Volume 9
• TeilnehmendeR: Baltrusch, Burghard, 1964-; Salzani, Carlo, 1972-; Vanhoutte, Kristof,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin, Germany : : Frank & Timme GmbH, Verlag für wissenschaftliche Literatur,, [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Ibero-Romance studies in literature and translatology. Studies in contemporary literature ; Volume 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Introduction -- Observing, Acting, Intervening: Saramago's Responsibility to the World -- A Responsibility to the World -- Utopia/Dystopia: José Saramago and the Regency Apocalypse -- Islands and Boats: (Lucid?) Meditations on a Stone Utopia and a Naval Heterotopia in the Work of Jose Saramago -- Raised from the Ground and the Spectre of Revolution -- Seeing Populism in Seeing -- The Color of Democracy -- Saramago, Agamben, and the 'Invention of an Epidemic' -- Debord and Saramago: Allegories of the Society of Spectacle in Blindness and The Cave -- Approaching Death and Ethics in José Saramago through Blimunda's Memorial -- A Literary Autopsy: An Anthropological and Medical Approach to Saramago's Oeuvre -- Canines: Unlikely Protagonists in the Novels of Coetzee, Saramago and Shibli -- The Temptations of Anthropomorphism, or, How an Elephant Can Help Us Become Human -- What is a Book? -- Works Cited -- Contributors -- Index.