Lessons in Exile (Value Inquiry Book Series / Philosophy in Spain)

Pereda, Carlos/ Manning, Sean (TRN)

Brill（2018/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 116 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004385146
• DDC分類 305.906914

Full Description

This book, winner of the 2007 Siglo XXI International Essay Prize, is unique in its approach to exile and offers remarkable insights into the subject. It discusses both human nature and the phenomenon of exile with depth and exactness from the combined perspectives of philosophy, morality, politics, anthropology, and history. After retracing the lessons learned through diverse experiences of exile from antiquity to modern times, it uses poetry as metatestimony to examine exile, subjectivity, and the many moral and political implications involved. The result is a series of thoughtprovoking connections between exile and the way we assume our lives.

Contents

A Map for the Road

1 Words, Words, Words

 1"Our Bones are Dried Up"—"Build Houses and Dwell in Them"

 2"I Am a Foreigner in Every Land"—"In Every Land I Am at Home"

 3Demands from Different Directions

 4Reasons For and Against Certain Cosmopolitanisms

2 Testimonies and Metatestimonies

 1Testimonies of Injustice

 2The Difficult and Infuriating Art of Self-Interruption

 3Metatestimonies

3 Exile as Loss

 1There is a Time to Be Involved and a Time to Step Away

4 Exile as Resistance

 1There is a Time to Resist and a Time to Break with the Situation Being Resisted as Well as with Resistance Itself

5 Exile as a New Beginning

6 Words Say, Words Resonate

 1Arrogant Reasoning

 2Comparisons, Metaphors, Analogies, Abstractions, Perspectives... On the Varying Resonations of Some Uses of Words Like "Exile," "Loss," "Resistance" and "New Beginning,"

 3An Usher for Loss

7 Nomadic Cultures and Personhood

 1Cultural Storerooms

 2Two Types of Practical Norms

 3The Dilemma of Personhood

 4Capacity for Judgment

Clarification

Bibliography

Index