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The Pathos of Distance : Affects of the Moderns
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The Pathos of Distance
Author(s): Jean-Michel Rabaté
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 self mythology 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.
Review(s):
“The Pathos of Distance is an inspiring achievement, a work of remarkable breadth and precision. It is an invaluable addition to the conversation on modernism and affect … The book reminds us that critical reading at its best – the kind of generous reading that revitalizes conversations and opens up new interpretive avenues – is often complicit with methodological inventiveness.” - James Joyce Quarterly
ISBN: 9781501308000
Author(s): Jean-Michel Rabaté
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 self mythology 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.
Review(s):
“The Pathos of Distance is an inspiring achievement, a work of remarkable breadth and precision. It is an invaluable addition to the conversation on modernism and affect … The book reminds us that critical reading at its best – the kind of generous reading that revitalizes conversations and opens up new interpretive avenues – is often complicit with methodological inventiveness.” - James Joyce Quarterly
ISBN: 9781501308000