Lessons in Exile

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-38514-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 323, 116 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 181 g

Reihe: Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy in Spain

This book, winner of the 2007 Siglo XXI International Essay Prize, is unique in its approach to exile and offers remarkable insights into the subject. It discusses both human nature and the phenomenon of exile with depth and exactness from the combined perspectives of philosophy, morality, politics, anthropology, and history. After retracing the lessons learned through diverse experiences of exile from antiquity to modern times, it uses poetry as metatestimony to examine exile, subjectivity, and the many moral and political implications involved. The result is a series of thoughtprovoking connections between exile and the way we assume our lives.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pereda, Carlos

Weitere Mitwirkende

Manning, Sean

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Exilforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Exilliteratur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

A Map for the Road

1 Words, Words, Words

1“Our Bones are Dried Up”—“Build Houses and Dwell in Them”

2“I Am a Foreigner in Every Land”—“In Every Land I Am at Home”

3Demands from Different Directions

4Reasons For and Against Certain Cosmopolitanisms

2 Testimonies and Metatestimonies

1Testimonies of Injustice

2The Difficult and Infuriating Art of Self-Interruption

3Metatestimonies

3 Exile as Loss

1There is a Time to Be Involved and a Time to Step Away

4 Exile as Resistance

1There is a Time to Resist and a Time to Break with the Situation Being Resisted as Well as with Resistance Itself

5 Exile as a New Beginning

6 Words Say, Words Resonate

1Arrogant Reasoning

2Comparisons, Metaphors, Analogies, Abstractions, Perspectives… On the Varying Resonations of Some Uses of Words Like “Exile,” “Loss,” “Resistance” and “New Beginning,”

3An Usher for Loss

7 Nomadic Cultures and Personhood

1Cultural Storerooms

2Two Types of Practical Norms

3The Dilemma of Personhood

4Capacity for Judgment

Clarification

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Carlos Pereda, Ph.D. (Universität Konstanz) is Researcher Emeritus at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas, National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has published fourteen books including An Ethics of Dispute (1994), On Trust (2009), and Philosophy in Mexico in the 20th Century (2013).

Sean Manning, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin) is a literary translator and Lecturer of Spanish at the University of Texas at Austin. His other translations include works by Lorenzo García Vega, Eduardo Lalo, and Azahara Palomeque.