Reading As Democracy in Crisis - Interpretation, Theory, History

Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History explores the dialectic between historical conditions and the reading strategies that arise from them. It explores the relationship between democracies that are perpetually in crisis and the seemingly unlimited freedom of our reading practices.

List of contents

Preface

Introduction

by James Rovira

1. Democracy as Context for Theory: Plato and Derrida as Readers of Socrates

by James Rovira

2. Historian, Forgive Us: Study of the Past as Hegel's Methodology of Faith

by Aglaia Maretta Venters

3. Karl Marx: The End of the Enlightenment

by Eric Hood

4. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Toward a Dialectical Pragmatism

by Steve Wexler

5. Robert Penn Warren: Poetry, Racism, and the Burden of History

by Cassandra Falke

6. Louise Rosenblatt: The Reader, Democracy, and the Ethics of Reading

by Meredith N. Sinclair

7. Aesthetic Theory: From Adorno to Cultural History

by Philip Goldstein

8. Judith Butler: A Livable Life

by Darcie Rives-East

9. Networking the Great Outdoors: Object-Oriented Ontology and the Digital Humanities

by Roger Whitson

Index

About the Editor

About the Contributors

About the author

Edited by James Rovira - Contributions by Cassandra Falke; Philip Goldstein; Darcie Rives-East; James Rovira; Meredith N. Sinclair; Aglaia Maretta Venters; Steve Wexler and Roger Whitson

Summary

Reading and Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History explores the dialectic between historical conditions and the reading strategies that arise from them. It explores the relationship between democracies that are perpetually in crisis and the seemingly unlimited freedom of our reading practices.

Product details

• Authors: James Rovira
• Assisted by: James Rovira (Editor), Rovira James (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781498553865
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-5386-5
• No. of pages: 198
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, HISTORY / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, Political structures: democracy, Literature: history & criticism, Literary studies: general, Literature: history and criticism, Political structures / systems: democracy