Sharing Common Ground: A Space for Ethics Contributor(s): Harvey, Robert (Author) |
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ISBN: 1501329596 ISBN-13: 9781501329593 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $39.55 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comparative Literature - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy |
Dewey: 809.933 |
LCCN: 2016048836 |
Physical Information: 1" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.95 lbs) 328 pages |
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Publisher Description: Sharing Common Ground makes a compelling contribution to an important emerging field that affects a broad swath of humanities. It uses historical, photographic, and literary examples, including an entirely new translation of a little known work by Marguerite Duras, presented here in full, to showcase the ethical capacity of art. Robert Harvey deploys critical tools borrowed from literature, aesthetics, and philosophy to mobilize the thought of several seminal figures in literature and theory including Michel Foucault, Marguerite Duras, Georges Didi-Huberman, and Giorgio Agamben, among a host of others. Construction sites, concentration camps, cemeteries, slums-such are only a few of the spaces that impel our imagination naturally toward what we commonly call "cultural memory." Sharing Common Ground reveals how the endeavor to think and imagine in common, and especially about the spaces we inhabit together, is critically important to human beings, artistically, culturally, and ethically. |
Contributor Bio(s): Harvey, Robert: - Robert Harvey is a former British MP who spent nine years on the foreign staff of The Economist, where he became assistant editor. He is the author of several books, including Clive: The Life and Death of a British Emperor. He lives in Powys, Wales and London. |