The pathos of distance : affects of the moderns /
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| Author / Creator: | Rabaté, Jean-Michel, 1949- author. |
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| Imprint: | New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Inc, 2016. ©2016 |
| Description: | ix, 217 pages ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10768718 |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 217 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781501308000 1501308009 9781501307997 1501307991 |