The Pathos of Distance

Affects of the Moderns

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Jean-Michel Rabate

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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.

Author Biography:

Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Crimes of the Future (2014), The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis (2014), the edited volume 1922: Literature, Culture, Politics, and Think, Pig! Beckett at the Limit of the Human (2016).

Release date Australia

April 21st, 2016

Author

Jean-Michel Rabate

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Undergraduate

Pages

232

Dimensions

140x216x14

ISBN-13

9781501308000

Product ID

23058624

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