The Community in Avant-Garde Literature and Politics

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-031-11556-1
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 166 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 358 g

This book rethinks the concept of community taking Jean-Luc Nancy’s influential essay “La communauté désoeuvrée” as its starting point, tracing subsequent scholarship on community and adding new insights on avant-garde aesthetics and politics. Extensively exploring the communitarian dimension of avant-garde aesthetics and politics (focusing on artistic groups, intellectual circles and theoretical collectives), the author aims to bring literature and art into a philosophical examination of the paradoxical and complex idea of community.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bo¿i¿, Zrinka

Božic, Zrinka

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Stoffe, Motive und Themen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Dis-/Appearing Community: The Avant-Garde, Politics, and Literature.- 2. Manifesting Dispossession: Politics of the Avant-Garde.- 3. Literary Communities and the Political.- 4. Experiencing Community: Theoretical Collectives and Circles.- 5. Totalitarian Subject(s) and Literature.- 6. Art Collective and the Politics of Anonymity.- 7. Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Zrinka Božic is Assistant Professor of Literary Theory and History in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Zagreb, Croatia. Her research interests include narrative theory, intersections between literature and philosophy, the position of literature and literary theory in relation to politics, avant-garde theory and practice, theories of representation and problems of testimony.