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Times of crisis expose how we experience social, physical, and
emotional forms of distance. Alone with Others explores how these
experiences overlap, shaping our coexistence. Departing from
conventional debates that associate intimacy with affection and
distance with alienation, Haustein introduces tact as a particular
mode of feeling one's way and making space in the sphere of human
interaction. Reconstructing tact's conceptual history from the late
eighteenth century to the present, she then focuses on three
specific periods of socio-political upheaval: the two World Wars,
and 1968. In five reading encounters with Marcel Proust, Helmuth
Plessner, Theodor Adorno, François Truffaut, and Roland Barthes,
Haustein invites us to reconsider our own ways of engaging with
other people, images, and texts, and to gauge the significance of
tact today. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and
may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core
for details.
This book addresses how does autobiography transform in the age of
technological reproducibility, as it relates to photography and the
role of emotion in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Walter
Benjamin's Berlin Childhood around 1900, and Roland Barthes's
Camera Lucida.
What is autobiography and how does it transform in the age of
technological reproducibility? Katja Haustein discusses this
question as it relates to photography and the role of emotion in
Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1909-22), Walter Benjamin's
Berlin Childhood around 1900 (1932-38), and Roland Barthes's Roland
Barthes (1977) and Camera Lucida (1980). In her close critical
readings, Haustein provides the first comprehensive comparative
analysis of these popular works, mapping them against
little-studied textual, visual and aural material, some of which
has only recently become accessible. In this way, her book opens
new avenues in scholarship dedicated to three outstanding
twentieth-century writers and contributes to a field of critical
inquiry that is still in the making: the history of autobiography
in the light of a history of the gaze.
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