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This state of the art collection offers fresh perspectives on why intersections between literature, religion, and ethics can address the fault lines of modernity and are not necessarily the cause of modernity's 'faults.' From a diverse cohort of scholars from around the world, with appointments in comparative literature and other disciplines, the essays suggest that the imagined hegemony of a Judeo-Christian Western project is neither exclusively true nor productive. However, the essays also suggest that elements of the Western religious traditions are important vectors for understanding modernity's complicated relationship to the past.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Kitty Millet (San Francisco State University, USA)
I. The Transcendental and Transcendence
1. Rewriting Grand Narratives as a Supratemporal Mystical Competition: Illustrations from Dante, Rabelais, Cervantes, Goethe, Proust, Mann, and Joyce
Gerald Gillespie (Stanford University, USA)
2. "Clearer Awareness of the ... Crisis": Erich Auerbach's Radical Relativism and the "Rich Tensions" of the Historical Imperative
Geoffrey Green (San Francisco State University, USA)
3. Secularism and Post-Secularism
Wlad Godzich (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
II. Literature
4. Redemptive Readings between Maurice Blanchot and Franz Rosenzweig
Shawna Vesco (University of California at Santa Cruz, USA)
5. "So What If You Are Big?": Divisive Identities and the Ethics of Pluralism in Medieval Indian Literatures of Devotion
Ipshita Chanda (Jadavpur University, India, and Georgetown University, USA)
6. Alterity and the Ethics of the Novel in J. M. Coetzee's Quasi-Realism
Christopher Weinberger (San Francisco State University, USA)
III. Religion
7. Asmodeus, the "Eye of Providence," and the Ethics of Seeing in 19th-Century Mystery Fiction
Sara Hackenberg (San Francisco State University, USA)
8. Modernism's Religious Rhetorics: Or, What Bothered Baudelaire
Hope Hodgkins (University of North Carolina, Greensboro, USA)
9. Poetry and Religion: Approaches to Christian Transcendence in Late 20th-Century Poets
Stephanie Heimgartner (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany)
IV. Ethics
10. Instituting the Other: Ethical Fault Lines in Readings and Pedagogies of Alterity
Dorothy Figueira (University of Georgia, USA)
11. Thinking God on the Basis of Ethics: Levinas, The Brothers Karamazov, and Dostoevsky's Anti-Semitism
Steven Shankman (University of Oregon, USA)
12. An Ethics for Missing Persons
Kitty Millet (San Francisco State University, USA)
Index
