Power of the Impossible, The Erik S. Roraback

Name: Power of the Impossible, The By Erik S. Roraback
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Power of the Impossible, The by Erik S. Roraback

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A survey of the challenges of establishing a future-oriented world community and its conceptual intersection with heterogeneous forms of the creative life.

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Power of the Impossible, The: On Community and the Creative Life by Erik S. Roraback

On community and the creative life. The Power of the Impossible surveys cultural figures from Spinoza to popular culture icon Ivan Lendl, to illuminate the challenge and problem of establishing a future-oriented world community and its conceptual intersection with heterogeneous forms of the creative life. 'This original, unorthodox study illuminates our current crises of community formation and creativity in ways unexpected but necessary.' Robert Appelbaum, Uppsala University

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Learned, exigent, original, and timely, Erik Roraback's The Power of the Impossible: On Community and the Creative Life presents authoritative readings of what important theorists from Spinoza to Bataille, Blanchot, Nancy, Zizek, and others have had to say about community and the individual, with sections along the way on how those theorists might lead us to approach work by Henry James, James Joyce, Ralph Ellison, Dante Alighieri, and, surprisingly, the great tennis player, Ivan Lendl. Roraback also develops on the basis of his theorists his own persuasive concept of an impossible/possible global community yet to come that would facilitate individual creativity as well as contest the repressive hegemony of finance capitalism and technology, especially digital technology. - J. Hillis Miller, The University of California at Irvine

About Erik S. Roraback

Erik S. Roraback was born in Seattle, USA, and teaches U.S. literature, cultural-studies, critical theory, and theoretical psychoanalysis in Charles University, and international cinema in Prague's film academy, F.A.M.U. He has lectured in fifteen countries and published more than thirty-five conference papers. He lives in Prague, Czech Republic.

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GOR011416982

ISBN 13

9781785351495

ISBN 10

1785351494

Title

Power of the Impossible, The: On Community and the Creative Life by Erik S. Roraback

Author

Erik S. Roraback

Condition

Used - Very Good

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Paperback

Publisher

Collective Ink

Year published

2018-11-30

Number of pages

400

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