The Perils of the One (eBook)

Stathis Gourgouris (Autor)

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2019
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-55002-4 (ISBN)

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In wide-ranging essays that are at once poetic and polemical, Stathis Gourgouris offers a philosophical anthropology that confronts the legacy of 'monarchical thinking': the desire to subjugate oneself to unitary principles and structures, whether political or moral, theological or secular.

GourgourisStathis: Stathis Gourgouris (PhD, Comparative Literature, UCLA) is Professor of Comparative Literature and English, cross-listed with Classics, and the former director of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He is the author of Dream Nation: Enlightenment, Colonization, and the Institution of Modern Greece (Stanford, 1996), Does Literature Think? Literature as Theory for an Antimythical Era (Stanford, 2003), and Lessons in Secular Criticism (Fordham 2013) and the editor of Freud and Fundamentalism (Fordham, 2010); he is also an award-winning poet with four volumes of poetry and a collection of essays published in Greek. He writes regularly in internet media (such as The Huffington Post, Los Angeles Review of Books, Al Jazeera, Open Democracy, and The Immanent Frame) on political and literary matters.Stathis Gourgouris is professor of classics, English, and comparative literature and society at Columbia University. He is the author of several books, including Dream Nation (1996), Does Literature Think? (2003), and Lessons in Secular Criticism (2013).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.7.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-231-55002-2 / 0231550022
• ISBN-13: 978-0-231-55002-4 / 9780231550024