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Part II: An Observer under Observation: The Cosmopolitan Legacy of Modern Theory
by Vladimir Biti
Tracing Global Democracy
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Title
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Toward a Global Community: The Emergence of the Modern Idea of Literature
1 The Divided Legacy of the Republic of Letters: Emancipation and Trauma
2 The Fissured Identity of Literature: National Universalism and/or Cosmopolitan Nationalism
2.1 Intertwined opposites
2.2 The emergence of the national literary historiography
2.3 Cosmopolitan patriot and democratic tyrant: Jean-Jacques Rousseau
2.4 Who is authorized to represent “naturalcommunities”?
2.5 Identification by alienation
3 The Janus Face of Literary Bildung: Education and/or Self-Formation?
3.1 “Having the other” and “being the other”
3.2 Differences between the Bildung concepts
3.3 Mirroring and interweaving
3.4 Resolving ambiguity, instituting difference
4 Who Voices Universal History? Kant’s “Mankind” and/or Herder’s “Nature”
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Kant's advocacy of mankind
4.3 Herder's advocacy of nature
5 Who Worlds the Literature? Goethe’s Weltliteratur and Globalization
5.1 Comparative literature as the promoter of globalization
5.2 Goethe's detachment from globalization
5.3 Getting out of the crowd: Goethe's elitist cosmopolitanism
5.4 The acting out of the traumatic experience
5.5 A retroactive reinvestment of Goethe's cosmopolitanism
5.6 Goethe's trauma narrative: Repositioning German literature
5.7 From exemption to expansion: Toward the Roman imperial cosmopolitanism
5.8 Translatingthe “iron law of kinship” into the “free competition of values”: The U.S.-American trauma narrative
Part II: An Observer under Observation: The Cosmopolitan Legacy of Modern Theory
6 Interiorizing the Exteriority: The Cosmopolitan Authorization of the Theoretical Truth
7 The Narrative of Permanent Displacement: Early German Romanticism and Its Theoretical Afterlife
7.1 Reappropriatingthe early Romanticist legacy
7.2 The pattern of irritated overcoming: the entangled opponents
7.3 Literature against philosophy: Niklas Luhmann's autopoietic turn
7.4 Passionately commited to the memory of the whole
7.5 The European entangled legacy
7.6 The novel as the epitome of evolutionary necessity
8 The Oppositional Literary Transcendental: The Russian Formalist Rewriting of Early Romanticist Cosmopolitanism
8.1 The post-imperial hyphenation and early Romanticist legacy
8.2 Literature's persistent self-exemption – modern literary theory's cosmopolitan operation
8.3 The resurgence ofthe disempowered law
8.4 Unleashing the force of self-exemption
9 The All-DevouringModern Mind: Bakhtin’s Cosmopolitan Self
9.1 Confronting mind with self-displacing life
9.2 Autopian cosmopolitan community
9.3 The authorial operation: expandingthe self by consummatingthe others
9.4 A counterfactual compensatory project
9.5 The divine and the devalued other – a constitutive interdependency
10 Countering the Empirical Evidence: From Immigrant Cosmopolitanism to a Cosmopolitanism of the Disregarded
10.1 Abstracting from natural transcendentals
10.2 Dis/empoweringthe cosmopolitan police
10.3 At the empowering service of a powerless victim: Emmanuel Levinas
10.4 The disabling enablement of the theorist: Maurice Blanchot and Michel Foucault
10.5 Empowering the literary transcendental: Jacques Derrida
11 Political and/or Literary Community: From Class to Messianic Cosmopolitanism
11.1 Singularity – a European mission?
11.2 The class cosmopolitanism of Cultural Studies
11.3 Cruelly attached to unfathomable singularity
11.4 The counter-narrativeof singularity
11.5 Vanishing mediation
12 Literature as Deterritorialization: New Vistas for Democracy?
12.1 Gilles Deleuze: emancipation through dehumanization
12.2 Jacques Rancière: emancipation through deregulation
12.3 Reintroducing the agent of universality: politics turned into police
Epilogue The Practice of Recommencing: Toward a Cosmopolitanism of the Dispossessed Belonging
References
Index
Endnotes
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