| The Common Growl: Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community Contributor(s): Claviez, Thomas (Author), Nancy, Jean-Luc (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0823270920 ISBN-13: 9780823270927 Publisher: Fordham University Press OUR PRICE: $23.75 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Philosophy | Aesthetics |
| Dewey: 307.01 |
| LCCN: 2016439421 |
| Series: Commonalities |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (0.65 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an imperative to think the common. The prominent scholars assembled here come together to articulate community while thinking seriously about the tropes, myths, narratives, metaphors, conceits, and shared cultural texts on which any such articulation depends. The result is a major contribution to literary theory, postcolonialism, philosophy, political theory, and sociology. |
Contributor Bio(s): Claviez, Thomas: - Thomas Claviez is Professor of Literary Theory at the University of Bern. He is the author of Grenzfälle: Mythos-- Ideologie-- American Studies (1998) and Aesthetics and Ethics: Otherness and Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" to "House Made of Dawn" (2008). He has published essays on pragmatism, ecology, American studies, American literature, ethics and aesthetics, and Native American literature. He is the editor of The Conditions of Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics on the Threshold of the Possible (2013); the co- author of Zur Aktualität von Jacques Rancière (forthcoming 2015, with Dietmar Wetzel); and he is currently working on a monograph with the title The Metonymic Society: Toward a New Poetics of Community.Nancy, Jean-Luc: - Jean-Luc Nancy is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg. His wide-ranging thought is developed in many books, including Expectation: Philosophy, Literature; The Possibility of a World; The Banality of Heidegger; The Disavowed Community; and, with Adèle Van Reeth, Coming (all Fordham). |