Writers and missionaries: essays on the radical imagination
"In this incisive series of intellectual portraits, Adam Shatz, one of the Anglophone world's foremost essayists, charts the role of the committed intellectual. Through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, he shows how writers bind themselves to the project embodied in their work In a moving port...
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| Summary: | "In this incisive series of intellectual portraits, Adam Shatz, one of the Anglophone world's foremost essayists, charts the role of the committed intellectual. Through the work of Jean-Paul Sartre, he shows how writers bind themselves to the project embodied in their work In a moving portrait of Edward Said, Shatz uncovers the profound role the cause of Palestinian liberation had on his life and writing. And via thinkers as diverse as Fouad Ajami, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, and Claude Lévi-Strauss, as well as the novelists Michel Houllebecq and Richard Wright, he explores the struggle authors face in reconciling writing with politics, thought with ethical commitments"-- |
| Physical Description: | 358 Seiten 24 cm |
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| adam_text | Contents Introduction i I. NATIVE SONS i. Fouad Ajami: The Native Informant 15 2. Kamel Daoud: Stranger Still 31 3. The Life and Death of Juliano Mer-Khamis 54 4. Edward Said: Palestinianism 80 II. EQUAL IN PARIS 5. Richard Wright’s Double Vision 107 6. Chester Himes: Writing Absurdity 7. “How does it feel to be a white man?”: William Gardner Smith’s Exile in Paris 132 151 III. SIGNS TAKEN FOR WONDERS 8. Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Ends of Man 169 9. Not in the Mood: Jacques Derrida’s Secrets 186 10. Roland Barthes’s Autofictions 202 n. Solitary Passions: Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Secret Room 214 12. The Banality of Islamism: Michel Houellebecq’s Submission 234
IV. LESSONS OF DARKNESS 13. Suffering as Identity: Claude Lanzmann 14. Brothers in Arms: Jean-Pierre Melville’s War 15. “One day I’ll tell you what I think”: Jean-Paul Sartre and Arwa Salih 16. Writers or Missionaries? Epilogue: Kitchen Confidential Acknowledgments Index M9 269 290 304 З2-? 343 345
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Contents Introduction i I. NATIVE SONS i. Fouad Ajami: The Native Informant 15 2. Kamel Daoud: Stranger Still 31 3. The Life and Death of Juliano Mer-Khamis 54 4. Edward Said: Palestinianism 80 II. EQUAL IN PARIS 5. Richard Wright’s Double Vision 107 6. Chester Himes: Writing Absurdity 7. “How does it feel to be a white man?”: William Gardner Smith’s Exile in Paris 132 151 III. SIGNS TAKEN FOR WONDERS 8. Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Ends of Man 169 9. Not in the Mood: Jacques Derrida’s Secrets 186 10. Roland Barthes’s Autofictions 202 n. Solitary Passions: Alain Robbe-Grillet’s Secret Room 214 12. The Banality of Islamism: Michel Houellebecq’s Submission 234
IV. LESSONS OF DARKNESS 13. Suffering as Identity: Claude Lanzmann 14. Brothers in Arms: Jean-Pierre Melville’s War 15. “One day I’ll tell you what I think”: Jean-Paul Sartre and Arwa Salih 16. Writers or Missionaries? Epilogue: Kitchen Confidential Acknowledgments Index M9 269 290 304 З2-? 343 345 |
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