Lessons in Exile
Published on 29. November 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
124 pages
978-90-04-38514-6 (ISBN)
Description
This book, winner of the 2007 Siglo XXI International Essay Prize, is unique in its approach to exile and offers remarkable insights into the subject. It discusses both human nature and the phenomenon of exile with depth and exactness from the combined perspectives of philosophy, morality, politics, anthropology, and history. After retracing the lessons learned through diverse experiences of exile from antiquity to modern times, it uses poetry as metatestimony to examine exile, subjectivity, and the many moral and political implications involved. The result is a series of thoughtprovoking connections between exile and the way we assume our lives.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 155 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-38514-6 (9789004385146)
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Persons
Carlos Pereda, Ph.D. (Universitaet Konstanz) is Researcher Emeritus at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filosoficas, National Autonomous University of Mexico. He has published fourteen books including An Ethics of Dispute (1994), On Trust (2009), and Philosophy in Mexico in the 20th Century (2013).
Sean Manning, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin) is a literary translator and Lecturer of Spanish at the University of Texas at Austin. His other translations include works by Lorenzo Garcia Vega, Eduardo Lalo, and Azahara Palomeque.
Sean Manning, Ph.D. (University of Texas at Austin) is a literary translator and Lecturer of Spanish at the University of Texas at Austin. His other translations include works by Lorenzo Garcia Vega, Eduardo Lalo, and Azahara Palomeque.
Content
A Map for the Road
1 Words, Words, Words
?1"Our Bones are Dried Up"-"Build Houses and Dwell in Them"
?2"I Am a Foreigner in Every Land"-"In Every Land I Am at Home"
?3Demands from Different Directions
?4Reasons For and Against Certain Cosmopolitanisms
2 Testimonies and Metatestimonies
?1Testimonies of Injustice
?2The Difficult and Infuriating Art of Self-Interruption
?3Metatestimonies
3 Exile as Loss
?1There is a Time to Be Involved and a Time to Step Away
4 Exile as Resistance
?1There is a Time to Resist and a Time to Break with the Situation Being Resisted as Well as with Resistance Itself
5 Exile as a New Beginning
6 Words Say, Words Resonate
?1Arrogant Reasoning
?2Comparisons, Metaphors, Analogies, Abstractions, Perspectives... On the Varying Resonations of Some Uses of Words Like "Exile," "Loss," "Resistance" and "New Beginning,"
?3An Usher for Loss
7 Nomadic Cultures and Personhood
?1Cultural Storerooms
?2Two Types of Practical Norms
?3The Dilemma of Personhood
?4Capacity for Judgment
Clarification
Bibliography
Index
1 Words, Words, Words
?1"Our Bones are Dried Up"-"Build Houses and Dwell in Them"
?2"I Am a Foreigner in Every Land"-"In Every Land I Am at Home"
?3Demands from Different Directions
?4Reasons For and Against Certain Cosmopolitanisms
2 Testimonies and Metatestimonies
?1Testimonies of Injustice
?2The Difficult and Infuriating Art of Self-Interruption
?3Metatestimonies
3 Exile as Loss
?1There is a Time to Be Involved and a Time to Step Away
4 Exile as Resistance
?1There is a Time to Resist and a Time to Break with the Situation Being Resisted as Well as with Resistance Itself
5 Exile as a New Beginning
6 Words Say, Words Resonate
?1Arrogant Reasoning
?2Comparisons, Metaphors, Analogies, Abstractions, Perspectives... On the Varying Resonations of Some Uses of Words Like "Exile," "Loss," "Resistance" and "New Beginning,"
?3An Usher for Loss
7 Nomadic Cultures and Personhood
?1Cultural Storerooms
?2Two Types of Practical Norms
?3The Dilemma of Personhood
?4Capacity for Judgment
Clarification
Bibliography
Index