The Common Growl : Toward a Poetics of Precarious Community /
Claviez, Thomas,author.
Nancy, Jean-Luc
No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an imperative to think the common. The prominent scholars assembled here come together to articulate community while thinking seriously about the tropes, myths, narratives, metaphors, conceits, and shared cultural texts on which any such articulation depends. The result is a major contribution to literary theory, postcolonialism, philosophy, political theory, and sociology.
Specialized.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Specialized.
Includes bibliographical references (pages [177]-186) and indexes.

No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an imperative to think the common. The prominent scholars assembled here come together to articulate community while thinking seriously about the tropes, myths, narratives, metaphors, conceits, and shared cultural texts on which any such articulation depends. The result is a major contribution to literary theory, postcolonialism, philosophy, political theory, and sociology.
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Literature
Society in literature.
Communities in literature.
Alterity.
Community and Literature.
Contingency.
Metonymy.
Poetics of Community.