Tracing Global Democracy

Literature, Theory, and the Politics of Trauma

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Beschreibung

Focused on the recently hotly debated topic at the crossroads of various human and social sciences, this book investigates the emergence of the cosmopolitan idea of literature and its impact on the reconfiguration of the European and non-European political spaces. The birthplace of this idea is its designers traumatic experience as induced by the disconcerting condition of their [...] thesis is that the eighteenth and nineteenth centurys cosmopolitan projects that grow out of such deep frustrations trace the twentieth centurys global democracy. This hidden origin of cosmopolitan projects dismantles the usual European representation of modernization as universal progress as myopic. Rather than being a generous action of prominent subjects such as Voltaire, Kant, and Goethe, or Bakhtin, Derrida and Deleuze, cosmopolitanism is an enforced reaction of the instances dispossessed by injury that search for the ways of healing it. Yet as soon as their remedy establishes itself as the ground for universal reconciliation, it risks suppressing others trauma, i.e. turns from politics into a police. Articulating the authors position in the recent debates on the structure of democracy, the epilogue suggests an alternative strategy.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9783110577822

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

230 x 155 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2017

Verlag / Hersteller

De Gruyter