The Pathos of Distance: Affects of the Moderns by Rabaté, Jean-Michel

The Pathos of Distance: Affects of the Moderns (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781501307997)

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The Pathos of Distance: Affects of the Moderns by Rabaté, Jean-Michel

The Pathos of Distance: Affects of the Moderns

$39.95
The Pathos of Distance: Affects of the Moderns by Rabaté, Jean-Michel

The Pathos of Distance: Affects of the Moderns

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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Jean-Michel Rabaté uses Nietzsche's image of a "pathos of distance," the notion that values are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a wide-ranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns. Revealing overlooked connections between Nietzsche's and Benjamin's ideas of history and ethics, Rabaté provides an original genealogy for modernist thought, moving through figures and moments as varied as Yeats and the birth of Irish Modernism, the ethics of courage in Virginia Woolf, Rilke, Apollinaire, and others in 1910, T. S. Eliot's post-war despair, Jean Cocteau's formidable selfmythology in his first film The Blood of a Poet, Siri Hustvedt's novel of American trauma, and J. M. Coetzee's dystopia portraying an affectless future haunted by a messianic promise.

Author: Jean-Michel Rabaté
ISBN-10: 1501307991
ISBN-13: 9781501307997
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2016
Pages: 232
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
By Jean-Michel Rabaté
By Jean-Michel Rabaté
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Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Crimes of the Future (2014), The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis (2014), the edited volume 1922: Literature, Culture, Politics, and Think, Pig! Beckett at the Limit of the Human (2016).

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