On the Ethical Imperatives of the Interregnum

Essays in Loving Strife from Soren Kierkegaard to Cornel West

AvWilliam V. Spanos

Häftad, Engelska, 2018

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This book is an autobiographical meditation on the way in which the world’s population has been transformed into a society of refugees and émigrés seeking –indeed, demanding– an alternative way of political belonging.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-07-13
Mått:148 x 210 x 9 mm
Vikt:216 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Pivotal Studies in the Global American Literary Imagination
Antal sidor:140
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319838465

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William V. Spanos is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Binghamton University (State University of New York), USA, and the founding editor of boundary 2:a journal of postmodern literature and culture which he edited from 1970-1987. He is the author of over hundred essays and many books on subject ranging from modernist and postmodernist literature, poststructuralist theory, and New Americanist studies.

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Preface.- Chapter 1: Retrieving Kierkegaard for the Post-9/11 Occasion: A Late Meditation on the Secular.- Chapter 2: Heidegger and Das Nichts: An Autobiographical Meditation on the Question of the Nothing.- Chapter 3: The Enigma of T. S. Eliot: An Autobiographical Essay on the Contradictions between His Poetry and Prose.- Chapter 4: On the Place of Excrement: My Relation to the Poetry of William Butler Yeats.- Chapter 5: Hannah Arendt, Non-Jewish Jew: Our Contemporary Chapter 6: Edward W. Said and William V. Spanos: A Contrapuntal Affiliation.- Chapter 7: Robert Kroetsch, Play, and the Specter: A Meditation on a Friendship.- Chapter 8: A “Mad Generosity: Retrieving John Gardner.- Chapter 9: Robert Creeley, Quintessential American Poet: A Dialogue with a Departed Friend.- Chapter 10: Cornel West: My Black-American Brother.- Index.