Pathos of Distance

Affects of the Moderns

AvJean-Michel Rabaté

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Jean-Michel Rabaté uses Nietzsche's image of a “pathos of distance,” the notion that values are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a wide-ranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns. Revealing overlooked connections between Nietzsche's and Benjamin's ideas of history and ethics, Rabaté provides an original genealogy for modernist thought, moving through figures and moments as varied as Yeats and the birth of Irish Modernism, the ethics of courage in Virginia Woolf, Rilke, Apollinaire, and others in 1910, T. S. Eliot's post-war despair, Jean Cocteau's formidable selfmythology in his first film The Blood of a Poet, Siri Hustvedt's novel of American trauma, and J. M. Coetzee's dystopia portraying an affectless future haunted by a messianic promise.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-04-21
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:224
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781501307980
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)

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Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Crimes of the Future (2014), The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis (2014), the edited volume 1922: Literature, Culture, Politics, and Think, Pig! Beckett at the Limit of the Human (2016).

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An often fascinating mix of theoretical reflection, intellectual history and literary criticism ... The Pathos of Distance is invariably interesting and its amazing erudition is simply dazzling.

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Introduction: Formations of Pathos: Nietzsche, Benjamin, Warburg1.“Pathos of distance”: Huneker and Barthes reading Nietzsche2. “Hard” modernism: Alfred Jarry3. The Birth of Irish Modernism from the Spirit of Nietzscheism 4. Ethos vs. Pathos of the New in 19105. Affect Effects Affects: Deleuzian Affect vs. Lacanian Pathos6.“Playing Possum”: War, Death and Distance in Eliot's poetry7. Let the wound speak: Cocteau's Pathosformel 8. The Pathos of History: Trauma in Siri Hustvedt's The Sorrows of an American9. Pathos of the Future: Nihilism and Hospitality in The Childhood of JesusConclusion: When is a door not a door? Bibliography Index