Rootedness
Subtitle: The Ramifications of a Metaphor
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226317656
Subjects: Roots (botany); French literature, history and criticism, 20th century; German literature, history and criticism, 20th century; Alienation (philosophy)
Description: People have long imagined themselves as rooted creatures, bound to the earth-and nations-from which they came. In 'Rootedness', Christy Wampole looks toward philosophy, ecology, literature, history, and politics to demonstrate how the metaphor of the root-surfacing often in an unexpected variety of places, from the family tree to folk etymology to the language of exile-developed in twentieth-century Europe. Wampole examines both the philosophical implications of this metaphor and its political evolution.