{"product_id":"common-measures-joseph-albernaz-9781503639720","title":"Common Measures: Romanticism and the Groundlessness of Community","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat happens to the experience of community when the grounds of communal life collapse? The Romantic period's upheaval cast both traditional communal organizations of life and outgrowths of the new revolutionary age into crisis. In this context, Joseph Albernaz argues that Romantic writers articulate a vital conception of \"groundless community,\" while following this idea through its aesthetic, ecological, political, and philosophical registers into the present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAmidst the violent expropriation of the commons, Romantic writers including the Wordsworths, Clare, Hölderlin, and the revolutionary abolitionist Robert Wedderburn reimagined the forms of their own lives through literature to conceive community as \u003ci\u003egroundless\u003c\/i\u003e, a disposition toward radically open forms of sharing--including with nonhuman beings--without recourse to any collective identity. Both a poetics and ethics, groundless community names an everyday sociality that surges beneath and against the enclosures of property and identity, binding us to the movements of the earth.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUnearthing Romanticism's intersections with the history of communism and the general strike, Albernaz also demonstrates how Romantic literature's communal imagination reverberates through later theories of community in Bataille, Derrida, Nancy, Moten, and others. With sharp close readings, new historical constellations, and innovative theoretical paradigms, \u003ci\u003eCommon Measures\u003c\/i\u003e recasts the relationship of the Romantic period to the basic terms of modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph Albernaz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 150363972X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781503639720\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/20\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 370\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.20w x 1.20d","brand":"Joseph Albernaz","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45980968026367,"sku":"9781503639720","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e1aa6ce0-45fd-489c-9ac7-19dc0f54b9e4.jpg?v=1722417370","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/common-measures-joseph-albernaz-9781503639720","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}