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Scars of the Spirit: The Struggle Against Inauthenticity

Autor Geoffrey Hartman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2004

In this fascinating collection of essays, noted cultural critic Geoffrey Hartman raises the essential question of where we can find the real or authentic in today's world, and how this affects the way we can understand our human predicament. Hartman explores such issues as the fantasy of total and perfect information available on the Internet, the biographical excesses of tell-all daytime talk shows, and how we can understand what is "true" in biographical and testimonial writing. And, what, he asks, is the ethical point of all this personal testimony? What has it really taught us? Underlying the entire book is a question of how the Holocaust has shaped the possibilities for truth and for the writing of an authentic life story in today's world, and how we can approach the world in a meaningful way. Hartman produces a meditation on how an appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of art and writing may help us to answer these questions of meaning.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781403965585
ISBN-10: 1403965587
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 144 x 228 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Ediția:First.
Editura: St. Martin's Griffin

Notă biografică

Geoffrey Hartman

Cuprins

Triple Overture: (1) Dangerous Good Words (2) A Short History of the Unreal (3) Remnants of Hegel * Realism, Authenticity, and the New Biographical Culture * Tele-Suffering and Testimony * Testimony and Authenticity * The Letter as Revenant * Text and Spirit * Transparency Reconsidered * Who Needs Goethe? * The Virtue of Attentiveness * Democracy's Museum * Aestheticide