Sharing Common Ground

A Space for Ethics

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

AvRobert Harvey

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Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities. It uses historical, photographic, and literary examples, including an entirely new translation of a little known work by Marguerite Duras, presented here in full, to showcase the ethical capacity of art. Robert Harvey deploys critical tools borrowed from literature, aesthetics, and philosophy to mobilize the thought of several seminal figures in literature and theory including Michel Foucault, Marguerite Duras, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Giorgio Agamben, among a host of others.Construction sites, concentration camps, cemeteries, slums—such are only a few of the spaces that impel our imagination naturally toward what we commonly call “cultural memory.” Sharing Common Ground reveals how the endeavor to think and imagine in common, and especially about the spaces we inhabit together, is critically important to human beings, artistically, culturally, and ethically.

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Utgivningsdatum2017-06-15
Mått140 x 218 x 28 mm
Vikt440 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor328
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781501329593

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In a number of ways and contexts, thus, Sharing Common Ground manages to reveal how the urge to think and imagine in common when faced with existing places and their challenges is essential culturally, artistically, theoretically, ethically and existentially for human beings if they are to recreate these places as spaces that they can inhabit together. Equally, Harvey lays bare that the sharing of common ground is a joint endeavor linking crucial figures within literature, art, theory, philosophy and ethics together … Harvey’s ongoing discussion throughout the book also repeatedly makes decisive and well-considered contributions to the translation and understanding of French theory and literature. In particular, it makes substantial offerings to the rendition of a number of crucial and at times somewhat quite enigmatic French terms and concepts in the English language … Sharing Common Ground shows considerable erudition; and Harvey’s scholarship is meticulous and detailed … By contextualizing the text and authors discussed, digging out a number of whole arrays of hitherto overlooked connections and establishing a number of family resemblances, he manages to cover a lot of (common) ground and to make a number of very important points. Throughout, reading Sharing Common Ground is a most rewarding, enlivening and enlightening experience. In this manner, the monograph also succeeds in making it graphic that (even) reading and writing can be (particularly) exhilarating experiences, despite the fact and due to the fact that we are here (in a pre-eminent sense) strangers when we meet.