Scars of the spirit : the struggle against inauthenticity
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Scars of the spirit : the struggle against inauthenticity
Palgrave Macmillan, 2002
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Includes index
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Description
In this collection of essays, critic Geoffrey Hartman raises the essential question of where we can find the real or authentic in the contemporary world, and how this affects the way we can understand our human predicament. Hartman explores such issues as the fantasy of total and perfect information available on the internet, the biographical excesses of tell-all daytime talk shows, and how we can understand what is "true" in biographical and testimonial writing. And, what, he asks, is the ethical point of all this personal testimony? What has it really taught us? Underlying the entire book is a question of how the Holocaust has shaped the possibilities for truth and for the writing of an authentic life story in the contemporary world, and how we can approach the world in a meaningful way. Hartman produces a meditation on how an appreciation of the aesthetic qualities of art and writing may help us to answer these questions of meaning. His idea is that the form of contemplation produced by the aesthetic, and particularly by poetry resists both the fantasy of data delivering up its own final meaning and of ideology delivering us from literature and life.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments Foreword Triple Overture: Dangerous Good Words A Short History of the Unreal Remnants of Hegel Realism, Authenticity, and the New Biographical Culture Tele-Suffering and Testimony Testimony and Authenticity The Letter as Revenant Text and Spirit Transparency Reconsidered Who Needs Goethe? The Virtue of Attentiveness Democracy's Museum Aestheticid
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