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The Common Growl
Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community
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2016
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No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an imperative to think the common. The prominent scholars assembled here come together to articulate community while thinking seriously about the tropes, myths, narratives, metaphors, conceits, and shared cultural texts on which any such articulation depends. The result is a major contribution to literary theory, postcolonialism, philosophy, political theory, and sociology.
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Contributor: Thomas Claviez
Thomas Claviez is Professor for Literary Theory at the University of Bern, where he is responsible for the MA program in World Literature. He is the author of Grenz fälle: Mythos- Ideologie- American Studies (1998) and Aesthetics and Ethics: Otherness and Moral Imagination from Aristotle to Levinas and from Uncle Tom’s Cabin to House Made of Dawn (2008) and the coauthor, with Dietmar Wetzel, of Zur Aktualität von Jacques Rancière (2016). He has published widely on issues of community, recognition, literary theory, and moral philosophy. He is the editor of The Conditions of Hospitality: Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics on the Threshold of the Possible (2013) and of The Common Growl: Towards a Poetics of Precarious Community (2016) and the coeditor of Aesthetic Transgressions: Modernity, Liberalism, and the Function of Literature (2006) and of Critique of Authenticity (2019). He is currently working on a monograph with the title A Metonymic Community? Towards a New Poetics of Contingency.
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Contributor: Jean-Luc Nancy
Jean-Luc Nancy (1940–2021) was Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Strasbourg and one of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century’s foremost thinkers of politics, art, and the body. His wide-ranging thought runs through many books, including Being Singular Plural, The Ground of the Image, Corpus, The Disavowed Community, and Sexistence. His book The Intruder was adapted into an acclaimed film by Claire Denis.
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CONTENTS
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FOREWORD: THE COMMON GROWL
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INTRODUCTION: TOWARD A POETICS OF COMMUNITY
1 - The Poetics of Community
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COMMUNITY AND ETHNOS
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A METONYMIC COMMUNITY? TOWARD A POETICS OF CONTINGENCY
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POETICS OF ANXIETY AND SECURITY
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LITERATURE, THE WORLD, AND YOU
72 - The Politics of Aesthetics
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LITERARY COMMUNITIES
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ANTIRACISM AND (RE)HUMANIZATION
111 - Sociological Reflections
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CAN SOCIETY BE COMMODITIES ALL THE WAY DOWN?
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TWO EXAMPLES OF RECENT AESTHETICO- POLITICAL FORMS OF COMMUNITY
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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WORKS CITED
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CONTRIBUTORS
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INDEX OF NAMES
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SUBJECT INDEX
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July 20, 2020
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9780823270941
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Keywords for this book
Poetics of Community; Metonymy; Contingency; Alterity; Community and Literature
