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The rapid global spread of populism has become an arresting and
often disturbing phenomenon in the opening decades of the
twenty-first century. This collection of essays explores the
complex histories and diverse geographies of populist activity,
examining its manifestations on both the political left and the
right while tracing its dangerous association with nativism, racism
and xenophobia. Established socio-political theories are questioned
and challenged, giving way to fresh philosophical or cultural
perspectives. At the heart of this collection lies a concern with
the capacity of the humanities - and especially literary studies -
to interpret, evaluate and intervene in this populist moment.
Literary discussion ranges from Henry James and William Faulkner to
Toni Morrison, David Foster Wallace, Ali Smith and Ta-Nehisi
Coates. These essays demonstrate the pertinence and value of
enquiries from multiple perspectives if we are to come to terms
with the impact of populist rhetoric on meaning and truth, as
proliferating misinformation unmoors conceptual and ethical
coherence. The chapters in this book were originally published in
Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies and
English Studies in Africa.
This collection of imaginative essays traces notions of hospitality
across a sequence of theoretical permutations, not only as an
urgent challenge for our conflicted present, but also as
foundational for ethics and resonant within the play of language.
The plural form of the title highlights the inter-implication of
hospitality with its exclusive others, holding suspicious rejection
in tension with the receptiveness that transforms socio-cultural
relations. Geographically, the collection traverses the globe from
Australia and Africa to Britain, Europe and the United States,
weaving exchanges from south to north, as well as south to south,
and thoughtfully remapping our world. Temporally, the chapters
range from the primordial hospitality offered by the earth, through
the Middle Ages, to contemporary detention centres and the crisis
of homelessness. Thematically, hospitality embraces sites of
dwelling and the land, humans and animals in their complex
embodiment, spectres and the dead, dolls and art objects.This text
openly welcomes the reader to participate in shaping fresh critical
discourses of the hospitable, whether in literary and linguistic
studies, art and architecture, philosophy or politics.
This collection of imaginative essays traces notions of hospitality
across a sequence of theoretical permutations, not only as an
urgent challenge for our conflicted present, but also as
foundational for ethics and resonant within the play of language.
The plural form of the title highlights the inter-implication of
hospitality with its exclusive others, holding suspicious rejection
in tension with the receptiveness that transforms socio-cultural
relations. Geographically, the collection traverses the globe from
Australia and Africa to Britain, Europe and the United States,
weaving exchanges from south to north, as well as south to south,
and thoughtfully remapping our world. Temporally, the chapters
range from the primordial hospitality offered by the earth, through
the Middle Ages, to contemporary detention centres and the crisis
of homelessness. Thematically, hospitality embraces sites of
dwelling and the land, humans and animals in their complex
embodiment, spectres and the dead, dolls and art objects.This text
openly welcomes the reader to participate in shaping fresh critical
discourses of the hospitable, whether in literary and linguistic
studies, art and architecture, philosophy or politics.
Henry James and the Philosophical Novel aims to break fresh ground
by examining James's unique position as a philosophical novelist,
closely associated with the climate of ideas generated by his
brother, William, and his father, the elder Henry. The book offers
a detailed consideration of story-telling as a mode of
philosophical enquiry, showing how a range of distinguished
thinkers have relied on fictional narrative as a vital technique
for formulating and clarifying their ideas. At the same time, it
investigates (with close reference to his novels) the affiliations
between James's practice as a novelist and the epistemological,
moral and linguistic concerns pursued by members of the
Phenomenological Movement. The study brings to light striking
similarities between James's later works and the philosophical
project of Merleau-Pony; and emphasizes James' growing attraction
to, and versatility with, deconstructive strategies such as those
later employed by Jacques Derrida.
Henry James and the Philosophical Novel examines James's unique
position as a philosophical novelist, closely associated with the
climate of ideas generated by his brother, William and his father,
the elder Henry. The book offers a detailed consideration of
story-telling as a mode of philosophical enquiry, showing how a
range of distinguished thinkers have relied on fictional narrative
as a vital technique for formulating and clarifying their ideas. At
the same time, it investigates (with close reference to his novels)
the affiliations between James's practice as a novelist and the
epistemological, moral and linguistic concerns pursued by members
of the Phenomenological movement. The study brings to light
striking similarities between James's later works and the
philosophical project of Merleau-Ponty; it emphasises James's
growing attraction to and versatility with deconstructive
strategies such as those later employed by Jacques Derrida.
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