Tracing global democracy : literature, theory, and the politics of trauma /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Biti, Vladimir, 1952- (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2016]
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.