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Tracing Global Democracy.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Culture & conflictPublication details: De Gruyter, 2016.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 3110457644
  • 9783110457643
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tracing Global Democracy : Literature, Theory, and the Politics of Trauma.DDC classification:
  • 809.9 23
LOC classification:
  • PN51
Online resources:
Contents:
Acknowledgments ; Contents ; Introduction: The Cosmopolitan Axis: Agencies and/or Enablers ; Part I: Toward a Global Community: The Emergence of the Modern Idea of Literature ; 1 The Divided Legacy of the Republic of Letters: Emancipation and Trauma.
2 The Fissured Identity of Literature: National Universalism and/or Cosmopolitan Nationalism 2.1 Intertwined opposites ; 2.2 The emergence of the national literary historiography ; 2.3 Cosmopolitan patriot and democratic tyrant: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
2.4 Who is authorized to represent "natural communities"? 2.5 Identification by alienation ; 3 The Janus Face of Literary Bildung: Education and/or Self-Formation? ; 3.1 "Having the other" and "being the other" ; 3.2 Differences between the Bildung concepts.
3.3 Mirroring and interweaving 3.4 Resolving ambiguity, instituting difference ; 4 Who Voices Universal History? Kant's "Mankind" and/or Herder's "Nature" ; 4.1 Introduction ; 4.2 Kant's advocacy ofmankind ; 4.3 Herder's advocacy of nature.
5 Who Worlds the Literature? Goethe's Weltliteratur and Globalization 5.1 Comparative literature as the promoter of globalization ; 5.2 Goethe's detachment from globalization ; 5.3 Getting out of the crowd: Goethe's elitist cosmopolitanism ; 5.4 The acting out of the traumatic experience.
Summary: This book investigates the emergence of the cosmopolitan idea of literature and its impact on the democratic reconfiguration of the European and non-European cultural and political spaces. The birthplace of this idea is the traumatic experience of its designers among whom Voltaire, Kant, Herder, the Schlegel brothers and Goethe, resp. Russian Formalists, Bakhtin, Levinas, Blanchot, Derrida, Deleuze, Luhmann and Ranci�ere are closely investigated.
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Acknowledgments ; Contents ; Introduction: The Cosmopolitan Axis: Agencies and/or Enablers ; Part I: Toward a Global Community: The Emergence of the Modern Idea of Literature ; 1 The Divided Legacy of the Republic of Letters: Emancipation and Trauma.

2 The Fissured Identity of Literature: National Universalism and/or Cosmopolitan Nationalism 2.1 Intertwined opposites ; 2.2 The emergence of the national literary historiography ; 2.3 Cosmopolitan patriot and democratic tyrant: Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

2.4 Who is authorized to represent "natural communities"? 2.5 Identification by alienation ; 3 The Janus Face of Literary Bildung: Education and/or Self-Formation? ; 3.1 "Having the other" and "being the other" ; 3.2 Differences between the Bildung concepts.

3.3 Mirroring and interweaving 3.4 Resolving ambiguity, instituting difference ; 4 Who Voices Universal History? Kant's "Mankind" and/or Herder's "Nature" ; 4.1 Introduction ; 4.2 Kant's advocacy ofmankind ; 4.3 Herder's advocacy of nature.

5 Who Worlds the Literature? Goethe's Weltliteratur and Globalization 5.1 Comparative literature as the promoter of globalization ; 5.2 Goethe's detachment from globalization ; 5.3 Getting out of the crowd: Goethe's elitist cosmopolitanism ; 5.4 The acting out of the traumatic experience.

This book investigates the emergence of the cosmopolitan idea of literature and its impact on the democratic reconfiguration of the European and non-European cultural and political spaces. The birthplace of this idea is the traumatic experience of its designers among whom Voltaire, Kant, Herder, the Schlegel brothers and Goethe, resp. Russian Formalists, Bakhtin, Levinas, Blanchot, Derrida, Deleuze, Luhmann and Ranci�ere are closely investigated.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-384) and index.

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