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  1. Tracing Global Democracy
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, s.l.

    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... more

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    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 Rancière are closely investigated 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 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

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 3110457644; 9783110457643
    Series: Culture & Conflict ; v. 7
    Subjects: Literature and society; Trauma; Trauma; Literature and society; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY ; Literary; Literature and society
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 357-384) and index. - Print version record

  2. Tracing Global Democracy
    Literature, Theory, and the Politics of Trauma
    Published: 2016
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin/Boston

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783110457643; 3110457644
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    9783110457643
    Series: Culture & Conflict ; 7
    Other subjects: (Produktform)Electronic book text; (Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft; (BISAC Subject Heading)SOC000000; (VLB-WN)9510
    Scope: Online-Ressource
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