2. The Fissured Identity of Literature: National Universalism and/or Cosmopolitan Nationalism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgments V
3. Contents VII
4. Introduction: The Cosmopolitan Axis: Agencies and/or Enablers 1
5. Part I: Toward a Global Community: The Emergence of the Modern Idea of Literature
6. 1. The Divided Legacy of the Republic of Letters: Emancipation and Trauma 33
7. 2. The Fissured Identity of Literature: National Universalism and/or Cosmopolitan Nationalism 57
8. 3. The Janus Face of Literary Bildung: Education and/or Self-Formation? 83
9. 4. Who Voices Universal History? Kant’s “Mankind” and/or Herder’s “Nature” 99
10. 5. Who Worlds the Literature? Goethe’s Weltliteratur and Globalization 133
11. Part II: An Observer under Observation: The Cosmopolitan Legacy of Modern Theory
12. 6. Interiorizing the Exteriority: The Cosmopolitan Authorization of the Theoretical Truth 179
13. 7. The Narrative of Permanent Displacement: Early German Romanticism and Its Theoretical Afterlife 195
14. 8. The Oppositional Literary Transcendental: The Russian Formalist Rewriting of Early Romanticist Cosmopolitanism 213
15. 9. The All-Devouring Modern Mind: Bakhtin’s Cosmopolitan Self 235
16. 10. Countering the Empirical Evidence: From Immigrant Cosmopolitanism to a Cosmopolitanism of the Disregarded 257
17. 11. Political and/or Literary Community: From Class to Messianic Cosmopolitanism 285
18. 12. Literature as Deterritorialization: New Vistas for Democracy? 319
19. Epilogue: The Practice of Recommencing: Toward a Cosmopolitanism of the Dispossessed Belonging 345
20. References 357
21. Index 385