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This book traces the originality of Andrey Platonov's vision of the
Revolution in readings of his works. It has been common in Platonov
scholarship to measure him within the parameters of a political pro
et contra the October Revolution and Soviet society, but the
proposal of this book is to look for the way in which the writer
continuously asked into the disastrous aspects of the
implementation of a new proletarian community for what they could
tell us about the promise of the Revolution to open up the
experience of the world as common. In readings of selected works by
Andrei Platonov I follow the development of his chronicle of
revolutionary society, and from within it the outline of the
forgotten utopian dream of a common world. I bring Platonov into a
dialogue with certain questions that arise from the philosophy of
Martin Heidegger and that were later re-addressed in the works of
Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille and Jean-Luc Nancy, related to
the experience of the modern world in terms of communality,
groundlessness, memory, interiority. I show that Platonov writes
the Revolution as an implementation of common being in society that
needs to retrieve the forgotten memory of what being in common
means.
This highly original collection of essays contributes to a critique
of the common understanding of modernity as an enlightened project
that provides rational grounds for orientation in all aspects and
dimensions of the world. An international team of contributors
contend that the modern principles of foundation show in themselves
rather how modernity is disorienting itself. The book brings
together discussions on the writings of philosophers who treat more
systematically the questions of foundation and orientation, such as
Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Pascal, and Patocka, and
studies of literary works that explicitly thematize this question,
such as Novalis, Hoelderlin, Beckett, Platonov, and Benjamin. This
multi-disciplinary approach brings to the fore the paradox that
modern figures of grounding and orientation unground and disorient
and demonstrates a critical path to review current understandings
of modernity and post-modernity.
This highly original collection of essays contributes to a critique
of the common understanding of modernity as an enlightened project
that provides rational grounds for orientation in all aspects and
dimensions of the world. An international team of contributors
contend that the modern principles of foundation show in themselves
rather how modernity is disorienting itself. The book brings
together discussions on the writings of philosophers who treat more
systematically the questions of foundation and orientation, such as
Kant, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Pascal, and Patocka, and
studies of literary works that explicitly thematize this question,
such as Novalis, Hoelderlin, Beckett, Platonov, and Benjamin. This
multi-disciplinary approach brings to the fore the paradox that
modern figures of grounding and orientation unground and disorient
and demonstrates a critical path to review current understandings
of modernity and post-modernity.
This book traces the originality of Andrey Platonov's vision of the
Revolution in readings of his works. It has been common in Platonov
scholarship to measure him within the parameters of a political pro
et contra the October Revolution and Soviet society, but the
proposal of this book is to look for the way in which the writer
continuously asked into the disastrous aspects of the
implementation of a new proletarian community for what they could
tell us about the promise of the Revolution to open up the
experience of the world as common. In readings of selected works by
Andrei Platonov I follow the development of his chronicle of
revolutionary society, and from within it the outline of the
forgotten utopian dream of a common world. I bring Platonov into a
dialogue with certain questions that arise from the philosophy of
Martin Heidegger and that were later re-addressed in the works of
Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille and Jean-Luc Nancy, related to
the experience of the modern world in terms of communality,
groundlessness, memory, interiority. I show that Platonov writes
the Revolution as an implementation of common being in society that
needs to retrieve the forgotten memory of what being in common
means.
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