Reading as Democracy in Crisis (eBook, PDF)

Interpretation, Theory, History
Redaktion: Rovira, James

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History explores the dialectic between historical conditions and the reading strategies that arise from them. Chapters covering Plato and Derrida; G.W.F. Hegel; Karl Marx; Ludwig Wittgenstein; Robert Penn Warren; Louise Rosenblatt; Theodor Adorno, Michel Foucault, and Jacques Derrida; Judith Butler; and Object Oriented Ontology and Digital Humanities provide overviews of and arguments about each subject's thought in its historical contexts, suggesting how the reading strategies adopted in each case were in part motivated by specific historical circumstances. As the introduction explains, these circumstances often involved forms of democracy in crisis, so that the collection as a whole is an engagement with the dialectic between democracies that are perpetually in crisis and the seemingly unlimited freedom of our reading practices.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216249696
• Artikelnr.: 74834065

Autorenporträt

James Rovira is owner of Bright Futures Educational Consulting and founding president of the Anazoa Educational Project. He is former associate professor and English department chair at Mississippi College.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
by James Rovira
1. Democracy as Context for Theory: Plato and Derrida as Readers of
Socrates
by James Rovira
2. Historian, Forgive Us: Study of the Past as Hegel's Methodology of Faith
by Aglaia Maretta Venters
3. Karl Marx: The End of the Enlightenment
by Eric Hood
4. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Toward a Dialectical Pragmatism
by Steve Wexler
5. Robert Penn Warren: Poetry, Racism, and the Burden of History
by Cassandra Falke
6. Louise Rosenblatt: The Reader, Democracy, and the Ethics of Reading
by Meredith N. Sinclair
7. Aesthetic Theory: From Adorno to Cultural History
by Philip Goldstein
8. Judith Butler: A Livable Life
by Darcie Rives-East
9. Networking the Great Outdoors: Object-Oriented Ontology and the Digital
Humanities
by Roger Whitson
Index
About the Editor
About the Contributors