Tracing global democracy : literature, theory, and the politics of trauma /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2016]
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| Series: | Culture & conflict ;
Bd. 7. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.