Intimate Strangers - Arendt, Marcuse, Solzhenitsyn, Said in American Political Discourse

About the author

Andreea Deciu Ritivoi is professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on immigration, exile, political discourse, argumentation theory, and intellectual history. She is the author of Yesterday's Self: Nostalgia and the Immigrant Identity and Paul Ricoeur: Tradition and Innovation in Rhetorical Theory.

Summary

Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said each steered major intellectual and political schools of thought in American political discourse after World War II, yet none of them was American. Intimate Strangers rereads these thinkers to reconsider ideas of citizenship, universalism, and belonging.

Product details

• Authors: Andreea Ritivoi, Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Ritivoi Andreea Deciu
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.11.2024
• EAN: 9780231168694
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16869-4
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; PHILOSOPHY / Political, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, social and political philosophy, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Political science and theory, 20th Century history; philosophy