Political Narratosophy by Senka Anastasova
John Cage: The Silence of the Music was originally written in the passage of the year 2000 by the Brazilian composer Emanuel Dimas de Melo Pimenta, as a celebration of ninety years of John Cage, his great friend, and ten years of his death. Fully revised for the hundred years of the great American composer, the book has more than seven hundred pages, almost one hundred and fifty illustrations and photographs, many rare and unpublished. It is a magical journey through Cage's universe, revealing not only his music and his ideas, but also who he was as a human being, his relations with the world, his dreams. The book also has texts by Lucrezia De Domizio, the legendary Baroness Durini, one of the most important figures in contemporary art of the twentieth century; with an essay by the great French philosopher of music Daniel Charles, old friend of Cage; with rare images by various photographers, among them Roberto Masotti, great friend of Cage; an unpublished photographic essay by Flavio Matangrana, also known as Matangra, on John Cage at the International Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1985; an autobiographical statement by John Cage; a list of his compositions, his books, as well as of the books written about him. John Cage: The Silence of the Music is integrated in the various celebrations all over the world of John Cage's one hundred years. It is being sold at its cost."After a breathtaking look at the way that narrativity is thought about in critical western philosophy and feminism, using Rancière, Fraser, and Ricoeur’s work in particular, Senka Anastasova subversively juxtaposes these concepts to critical theory and feminist political philosophy in the context of the former and post-YugoslaviaAnastasova explores how losing the country and political system that gave birth and life to her as an author, offers a radically different perspective on thinking about narrative and identity in the present. Coming from a country that doesn’t exist anymore, will by definition create very different understandings of narrativity than from anyone from a country whose existence was never in doubt. In this highly original and deeply thoughtful book, Anastasova questions hegemonic understandings of narrativity and identity, offering that both have forms that resist rather than reproduce political power systems. As an author who lives between South Eastern Europe and California, Anastasova in Political Narratosophy is looking for a form of narrativity that is called for by critical theory from Western Europe and North America, and practiced in the East. In doing so, she includes her own powerful and subversive narrating voice which is perforce in motion."
James Martel, Professor of Political Theory and Anarchist Politics, San Francisco State University
"How do we narrate identity, experience, and life in a world we are never sure is real? Whether grappling with epistemological concerns in post-structuralist aesthetic theory or political memory in post-socialist Macedonia, Senka Anastasova never flinches from the challenge of thinking through and beyond the challenges to narrativity."
Jodi Dean, author of Comrade: An Essay on Political Belonging
"Senka Anastasova’s Political Narratosophy brilliantly explores the "transit zone" between the worlds of fiction and history, text and context, subject identification and disidentification. These transit zones are full of violence, relations of domination, and historical trauma, but also processes of resistance and emancipation. This book traces the fraught borderline between work and world in the writings of female authors living through the period of 20th century communism and its aftermath."
Cristian Sorace, Professor of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge
Senka Anastasova is a philosopher, university professor of philosophy and aesthetics, and one of the leading young generations of feminist political philosophers from post-Yugoslavia. With her international work in the fields of political philosophy, feminist political philosophy and epistemology, and philosophy of arts, she holds the position of full professor of philosophy at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje. Anastasova is a director and founder of the Research Centre of Social Sciences and Arts. She is an International Board Member of Hypatia: a Journal of Feminist Philosophy and is an author (together with Bonnie Mann and Brooke Burns) of the new Hypatia feminist documentary Gathering Feminist Voices in Time of Covid-19 (2021). She is an associate scientific delegate at the National Institutes of Health in America, and a member of the American Philosophical Association and American Political Science Association. She lives between South East Europe and California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781032449777 |
| ISBN 10 | 1032449772 |
| Title | Political Narratosophy |
| Author | Senka Anastasova |
| Series | Routledge Innovations In Political Theory |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2024-12-18 |
| Number of pages | 198 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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