Reading for the Planet: Toward a Geomethodology

ISBN-13: 9780472072798 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 272 str.

Christian Moraru

Opis

In his new book, Christian Moraru argues that post-Cold War culture in general and, in particular, the literature, philosophy, and theory produced since 9/11 foreground an emergent planetary imaginary a planetarism binding in unprecedented ways the world s peoples, traditions, and aesthetic practices. This imaginary, Moraru further contends, speaks to a world condition ( planetarity ) increasingly exhibited by human expression worldwide. Grappling with the symptoms of planetarity in the arts and the human sciences, the author insists, is a major challenge for today s scholars a challengeReading for the Planetmeans to address. Thus, Moraru takes decisive steps toward a critical methodology a geomethodology for dealing with planetarism s aesthetic and philosophical projections. Here, Moraru analyzes novels by Joseph O Neill, Mircea Cartarescu, Sorj Chalandon, Zadie Smith, Orhan Pamuk, and Dai Sijie, among others, as demonstration of his paradigm.
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