ISBN:
3110455757
,
9783110577822
,
9783110455755
Language:
English
Pages:
IX, 394 Seiten
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Culture & conflict volume 7
Series Statement:
Culture & conflict
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Biti, Vladimir, 1952 - Tracing global democracy
DDC:
809/.933581
Keywords:
Politics and literature
;
Literature and society
;
Literature, Modern History and criticism
;
Theory, etc
;
Literatur
;
Demokratie
;
Globalisierung
;
Politik
;
Literaturtheorie
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
Introduction -- Toward a global community: the emergence of the modern idea of literature. The divided legacy of the Republic of Letters: emancipation and trauma -- The fissured identity of literature: national universalism and/or cosmopolitan nationalism -- The Janus face of literary bildung: education and/or self-formation? -- Who voices universal history? Kant's "Mankind" and/or Herder's "Nature" -- Who worlds the literature? Goethe's weltliteratur and globalization -- An observer under observation: the cosmopolitan legacy of modern theory. Interiorizing the exteriority: the cosmopolitan authorization of the theoretical truth -- The narrative of permanent displacement: early German romanticism and its theoretical afterlife -- The oppositional literary transcendental: the Russian formalist rewriting of early romanticist cosmopolitanism -- The all-devouring modern mind: Bakhtin's cosmopolitan self -- Countering the empirical evidence: from immigrant cosmopolitanism to a cosmopolitanism of the disregarded -- Political and/or literary community: from class to messianic cosmopolitanism -- Literature as deterritorialization: new vistas for democracy? -- Epilogue
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 357-384
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