{"product_id":"exile-david-patterson-9780813118888","title":"Exile","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe life of a human community rests on common experience. Yet in modem life there is an experience common to all that threatens the very basis of community -- the experience of exile. No one in the modem world has been spared the encounter with homelessness. Refugees and fugitives, the disillusioned and disenfranchised grow in number every day. Why does it happen? What does it mean? And how are we implicated?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Patterson responds to these and related questions by examining exile, a primary motif in Russian thought over the last century and a half. By \"exile\" he means not only a form of punishment but an existential condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on texts by such familiar figures as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Solzhenitsyn, and Brodsky, as well as less thoroughly examined figures, including Florensky, Shestov, Tertz, and Gendelev, Patterson moves beyond the political and geographical fact of exile to explore its spiritual, metaphysical, and linguistic aspects. Thus he pursues the connections between exile and identity, identity and meaning, meaning and language.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatterson shows that the problem of meaning in human life is a problem of homelessness, that the effort to return from exile is an effort to return meaning to the word, and that the exile of the word is an exile of the human being. By making heard voices from the Russian wilderness, Patterson makes visible the wilderness of the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Patterson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813118883\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813118888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Kentucky\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.32h x 6.35w x 0.76d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/12\/2007 pg. 83","brand":"David Patterson","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47452531785983,"sku":"9780813118888","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0c1c26df-74da-48fb-9b75-c912459fca74.jpg?v=1761928982","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/exile-david-patterson-9780813118888","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}