Reading as Democracy in Crisis

Interpretation, Theory, History

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

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Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History explores the dialectic between historical conditions and the reading strategies that arise from them. Chapters covering Plato and Derrida; G.W.F. Hegel; Karl Marx; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Robert Penn Warren; Louise Rosenblatt; Theodor Adorno, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida; Judith Butler; and Object Oriented Ontology and Digital Humanities provide overviews of and arguments about each subject’s thought in its historical contexts, suggesting how the reading strategies adopted in each case were in part motivated by specific historical circumstances. As the introduction explains, these circumstances often involved forms of democracy in crisis, so that the collection as a whole is an engagement with the dialectic between democracies that are perpetually in crisis and the seemingly unlimited freedom of our reading practices.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-04-26
Mått160 x 231 x 21 mm
Vikt476 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor198
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498553865

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PrefaceIntroductionby James Rovira1. Democracy as Context for Theory: Plato and Derrida as Readers of Socratesby James Rovira2. Historian, Forgive Us: Study of the Past as Hegel’s Methodology of Faithby Aglaia Maretta Venters3. Karl Marx: The End of the Enlightenmentby Eric Hood4. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Toward a Dialectical Pragmatism by Steve Wexler5. Robert Penn Warren: Poetry, Racism, and the Burden of Historyby Cassandra Falke6. Louise Rosenblatt: The Reader, Democracy, and the Ethics of Readingby Meredith N. Sinclair7. Aesthetic Theory: From Adorno to Cultural Historyby Philip Goldstein8. Judith Butler: A Livable Lifeby Darcie Rives-East9. Networking the Great Outdoors: Object-Oriented Ontology and the Digital Humanitiesby Roger WhitsonIndexAbout the EditorAbout the Contributors

The ensuing struggle for democracy requires courageous scholars and writers to speak truth and for publishers to deliver their message to the public. Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History is an essential tool in democracy's fragile arsenal with which to contest denuded and unsavory forms of thought emerging in our time. Books like this one might just save us from sinking into a new dark age.