scholarly journals Reconsidering The World Republic of Letters: A Qualunque Community of Literatures

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-115
Author(s):  
Hatice Karaman ◽  
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Maurice Blanchot ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Philosophical Perspective ◽  
English Edition ◽  
Republic Of Letters ◽  
Literary Space ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common

In the preface to the English edition of The World Republic of Letters, Pascale Casanova focuses on the existence of a literary world/universe, which maintains a relative autonomy from the world and its political disparities and restrictions. This suggested ideal of a literary space is an attempt to posit world literature as an alternative chronotope in which literary production can survive and multiply transnationally. My paper will offer a reconsideration of this global literary space, read via a philosophical perspective, shaped by the famous discussion of the common and community as conducted by Giorgio Agamben, Maurice Blanchot, Georges Bataille, among others. Within the above theoretical frame, my attempt will be to reread Casanova’s contribution to World Literature as a desired community of literature(s), formed by the coming together of qualunque singularities which co-exist and co-belong without “any representable condition of belonging” (Agamben). Furthermore, the idea of qualunque (whatever) will constitute the starting point for the ethico-political reconsideration and reconceptualisation of the global literary space offered by Casanova, not only without borders but also without hierarchies.

Polysystems Redux: The Unfinished Business of World Literature

2015 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 272-281
Author(s):  
Debjani Ganguly
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Literary Studies ◽  
World Systems ◽  
Unfinished Business ◽  
Republic Of Letters ◽  
Systems Model ◽  
Literary Space ◽  
The World

AbstractIn responding to Muhsin al-Musawi’s two-part essay on the Arabic Republic of Letters, this essay proposes a rethinking of the world systems model in global literary studies in terms of a polysystems framework. Rather than trying to fit literary worlds—ancient, premodern, modern—within a single Euro-chronological frame culminating in a world capitalist systems model—where the non-European worlds appear as invariably inferior—it is worthwhile to see them as several polysystems with variable valences within a heterotemporal planetary literary space. This approach offers a comparative reading of the emergence of three language worlds—Sanskrit, Persian, and Arabic—and urges us to rethink the totality of the world literary space as a diachronic field that generates overlapping, multiscalar, comparative histories of literary polysystems.

Personocentrism in classical Russian literature of the XIX century. Dialectics of Artistic Consciousness

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anatoliy Andreev
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
Russian Literature ◽  
Cultural Identification ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Cultural Code ◽  
Eugene Onegin ◽  
Xix Century

The monograph is devoted to the study of the brightest phenomenon of the world art culture — Russian literature of the "golden age", which was formed as an aristocratic, personocentric literature. Russian Russian literature began to realize its "cultural code", its purpose, which was close to it in spirit; moreover, it unconsciously formed a program for its development, immediately finding its "gold mine": elitist personocentrism as a highly promising vector of culture, which became a decisive factor in the world recognition of Russian literature. The end-to-end plot of the book was the spiritual biography of the" extra person", a person, a personality. The author suggests that the starting point in the Russian cultural identification of the modern type is "Eugene Onegin" by A. S. Pushkin. This novel in verse, which embodied the type of "superfluous", determined not only the specifics and strategy of the development of Russian literature (which is proved by the analysis of the key classical works of the XIX century-from Griboyedov to Chekhov); in fact, it formed a program for the development of modern world literature. For specialists in literature, teachers and students of philological faculties of universities. It will also be useful for cultural scientists, specialists in literary and artistic creativity.

The Oneness-Trinitarian Pentecostal Dialogue: Exploring the Diversity of Apostolic Faith

2010 ◽  
Vol 103 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-349
Author(s):  
Frank D. Macchia
Keyword(s):  
Subsequent Development ◽  
The United States ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
World Council ◽  
The Common ◽  
Significant Measure ◽  
Nicene Creed

The Nicene Creed and the subsequent development of Trinitarian orthodoxy have been regarded by many as essential to the apostolic faith of the churches. For example, the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed without the filioque clause was made the starting point of the World Council of Churches' Commission on Faith and Order study program entitled, “Towards the Common Expression of the Apostolic Faith Today.” Not so well known, however, is the existence of a growing movement of Pentecostal Christians globally that seeks to preserve the apostolic faith of the churches in significant measure by rejecting the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed along with the Trinitarian dogma that historically it had supported. Commonly called Oneness or Apostolic Pentecostals, they are estimated to have from 14 to over 17 million followers globally and growing rapidly in Mexico, China, and the United States.1

Sudden Blindness Secondary to Injections of Common Drugs in the Head and Neck: I. Clinical Experiences

1978 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. ORL-147-ORL-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert N. McGrew ◽  
R. Sloan Wilson ◽  
William H. Havener
Keyword(s):  
Head And Neck ◽  
Model Experiment ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Clinical Experiences ◽  
The World ◽  
Pathologic Findings ◽  
Neurotoxic Effects ◽  
The Common ◽  
Long Acting ◽  
Sudden Blindness

Several cases of sudden, irreversible blindness have been reported in the world literature following injections of various drug combinations in the head and neck. The common feature these drugs have is their capacity to either produce direct neurotoxic effects or embolic phenomena. Two new cases which resulted from injection of the combination of a depo or long-acting corticosteroid (methylprednisolone acetate, 40 mg) and a local anesthetic and epinephrine or penicillin were added to the growing world literature. The ocular and systemic pathologic findings are described and important questions are raised as to the pathophysiology. The need for an animal model experiment to answer as many of these questions as possible is emphasized.

scholarly journals Autonomi er noget vi giver hinanden

2020 ◽  
pp. 125-139
Author(s):  
Christian Juul Busch
Keyword(s):  
Essential Element ◽  
Assisted Dying ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Mutual Obligation ◽  
The Common ◽  
Common Understanding

The concept of autonomy is essential in the discussion of assisted dying. In this chapter I will endeavour to nuance the concept of autonomy towards also encompassing an essential element of mutual commitment. Thus, the chapter will emphasise the importance of strengthening a nuanced concept of autonomy that I consider to be essential. Therefore, I will try to take the argument about the individual’s right to decide over his or her own life as a starting point to investigate autonomy and assisted dying. In the common understanding of autonomy, the mutual obligation towards the community seems to be reduced in favour of the individual’s right to decide for himself/herself. I will illustrate this aspect with an example from the world of cinema, Bille August’s Stille hjerte (Silent Heart).

scholarly journals Cosmopolitanism and Planetary Studies: Paradigms for Rewriting the Past

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 114-128
Author(s):  
Letitia Guran
Keyword(s):  
World Literature ◽  
World Order ◽  
Republic Of Letters ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Dialogue ◽  
Romanian Literature

This paper discusses recent models of world literature rewriting in light of the 2018 Romanian Literature as World Literature, which remaps some of the most representative Romanian authors and movements according to the intersectional frameworks advanced by Immanuel Wallerstein’s world systemstheory, Pascale Casanova’s world republic of letters, and others. In their plea for what the book’s editors call planetary, cosmopolitan studies, the sixteen contributors reread canonical Romanian texts and advocate for a new literary world order, within which Romanian literature is regarded in a less hierarchical/dichotomic fashion, as a literature of the world. This initiative seeks to reposition Romanian literature as a diverse, active, and dynamic partner in the world’s cultural dialogue. My essay addresses a paradox which is very much at the centre of the book: how can one promote intercultural, non-hegemonic models of dialogue when translation and marketability still restrict the participation of “marginal” cultures in the planetary, cosmopolitan exchange of ideas?

scholarly journals O lugar próprio no espaço impróprio: o negro, o judeu e o comum

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (70) ◽  
pp. 175-191
Author(s):  
Paulo Henrique Fernandes Silveira
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
Maurice Blanchot ◽  
Frantz Fanon ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Jacques Ranciere ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Jacques Rancière ◽  
The Common ◽  
Edmond Jabes

O lugar próprio no espaço impróprio: o negro, o judeu e o comum Resumo: No pós-guerra, uma série de intelectuais que residiam na França, alguns deles, como exilados ou expatriados, travaram um intenso debate a respeito das condições do negro e do judeu. Jean-Paul Sartre formulou uma das questões centrais desse debate: haveria uma essência da negritude ou do judaísmo? Para Frantz Fanon, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida e Edmond Jabès, a negritude e o judaísmo podem ser compreendidos a partir das experiências do exílio e da expatriação. Esse artigo pretende reconstruir esse debate e analisar a importância do não-pertencimento para as concepções de comunidade e comum desenvolvidas por Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben e Jacques Rancière. Palavras-chave: Negro. Judeu. Expatriação. Não-pertencimento. Comum. El lugar propio en el espacio impropio: el negro, el judío y el común Resumen: En la pos-guerra, una serie de intelectuales que vivían en Francia, algunos de ellos, como exilados o expatriados, trabaran un intenso debate a respecto de las condiciones del negro y del judío. Jean-Paul Sartre formuló una de las preguntas centrales de ese debate: ¿habría una esencia da negritud o de judaísmo? Para Frantz Fanon, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida y Edmond Jabès, la negritud y el judaísmo pueden ser comprendidos a partir de las experiencias de exilio y de la expatriación. Ese artículo pretende reconstruir ese debate y analizar la importancia del no-pertenencia a las conceptos de comunidad y común desarrolladas por Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben y Jacques Rancière. Palabras-clave: Negro. Judío. Expatriación. No-pertenencia. Común. The proper place in the improper space: the black, the jewish and the common Abstract: In the postwar period, a number of intellectuals residing in France, some of them as exiles or expats, the intellectuals engaged in an intense debate about the conditions of the black and the jewish. Jean-Paul Sartre formulated one of the key questions of this debate: Is there an essence of blackness or judaism? For Frantz Fanon, Maurice Blanchot, Jacques Derrida, and Edmond Jabès, blackness and judaism can be understood from the experiences of exile and expatriation. This article aims to reconstruct this debate and analyze the importance of non-belonging to the conceptions of community and common developed by Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, and Jacques Rancière. Keywords: Black. Jewish. Expatriation. Non-belonging. Common. Data de registro: 11/12/2019 Data de aceite: 26/08/2020

scholarly journals Congolese Literature as Part of Planetary Literature

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-244
Author(s):  
Silvia Riva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Areas ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Collaborative Approach ◽  
Global History ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Common Life ◽  
The World ◽  
The Common ◽  
Cultural Plurality ◽  
Taking Care

Abstract Historically and economically, the Congo has been considered one of the most internationalized states of Africa. The idea that African cultural plurality was minimized during the colonial era has to be reconsidered because textual negotiations and exchanges (cosmopolitan and vernacular, written and oral) have been frequent during and after colonization, mostly in urban areas. Through multilingual examples, this paper aims to question the co-construction of linguistic and literary pluralism in Congo and to advocate for the necessity of a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach, to understand the common life of African vernacular and cosmopolitan languages. I show that world literature models based on Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of negotiation between center and periphery thus have to be replaced by a concept of multilingual global history. Finally, I propose the notion of “planetary literature” as a new way of understanding the interconnection between literatures taking care of the world.

scholarly journals Form(s)-of-life: agamben's reading of Wittgenstein and the potential uses of a notion

2014 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 163-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matías Leandro Saidel
Keyword(s):  
Constitutive Relation ◽  
Ludwig Wittgenstein ◽  
Ordinary Language ◽  
Human Existence ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Form Of Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Specific Trait ◽  
The Common

Giorgio Agamben and Ludwig Wittgenstein seem to have very little in common: the former is concerned with traditional ontological issues while the latter was interested in logics and ordinary language, avoiding metaphysical issues as something we cannot speak about. However, both share a crucial notion for their philosophical projects: form of life. In this paper, I try to show that, despite their different approaches and goals, form of life is for both a crucial notion for thinking ethics and life in-common. Addressing human existence in its constitutive relation to language, this notion deconstructs traditional dichotomies like bios and zoé, the cultural and the biological, enabling both authors to think of a life which cannot be separated from its forms, recognizing the commonality of logos as the specific trait of human existence. Through an analogical reading between both theoretical frameworks, I suggest that the notion of form-of-life, elaborated by Wittgenstein to address human production of meaning, becomes the key notion in Agamben's affirmative thinking since it enables us to consider the common ontologically in its relation to Human potentialities and to foresee a new, common use of the world and ourselves.

When Literary Relations End

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 278-297
Author(s):  
Jing Tsu
Keyword(s):  
Science Fiction ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Chinese Literature ◽  
Literary Aesthetics ◽  
Contemporary Chinese Literature ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
Literary Space ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Relations ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Abstract Of the existing approaches to engaging with world literature, Pascale Casanova’s contribution remains the most prescient and relevant to the contemporary world. In this paper, I examine Casanova’s legacy in the context of contemporary Chinese literature – not only as the Sinophone, Chinese, or diasporic, but also in terms of the diverse genrification and creation of new types of media for literary inscription that border on obliterating the primacy of literary aesthetics. Is this a threat to the literary establishment, as it has been practiced, critiqued, and known in the European lineage? I argue that the literary space has never been in starker contrast with the world space, and that the emergence of a different “world normal” is challenging and fortifying Casanova’s legacy in deeply profound ways. To be examined, among others, are recent debates over world and Sinophone literature, science fiction, internet fiction, and diasporic writings.

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