LEADER 03892oam 22005774a 450 001 9910487551303321 005 20230621140453.0 010 $a9780810136878 010 $a0810136872 035 $a(CKB)4340000000257705 035 $a(OCoLC)1028933722 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse66115 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5302685 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5302685 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11524696 035 $a(ScCtBLL)cf2abaf1-78dc-42b2-8055-57e09d6ce0bc 035 $a(oapen)doab70915 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000257705 100 $a20171012d2018 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Art of Distances$eEthical Thinking in Twentieth-Century Literature /$fCorina Stan 210 $cNorthwestern University Press$d2018 210 1$aEvanston, Illinois :$cNorthwestern University Press,$d2018. 210 4$dİ2018. 215 $a1 online resource (xiii, 304 pages) 311 08$a9780810136854 311 08$a0810136856 311 08$a9780810136861 311 08$a0810136864 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Adorno and Barthes on the question of the right (di)stance -- The pathos of distances in "a world of banished people" -- George Orwell's critique of sincerity and the obligation of tactlessness -- The inferno of saviors: notes in the margin of Elias Canetti's lifework -- A socialism of distances, or on the difficulties of wise love: Iris Murdoch's secular community -- "The world in me": the distantiality of everyday life -- In search of a whole self: Benjamin's childhood fragments -- Annie Ernaux's diaries of the outside -- Gunter Grass's century -- Damon Galgut on emptying oneself for sleep -- Conclusion. 330 $aIn The Art of Distances, Corina Stan identifies an insistent preoccupation with interpersonal distance in a strand of twentieth-century European and Anglophone literature that includes the work of George Orwell, Paul Morand, Elias Canetti, Iris Murdoch, Walter Benjamin, Annie Ernaux, Günter Grass, and Damon Galgut. Specifically, Stan shows that these authors all engage in philosophical meditations, in the realm of literary writing, on the ethical question of how to live with others and how to find an ideal interpersonal distance at historical moments when there are no obviously agreed-upon social norms for ethical behavior.Bringing these authors into dialogue with philosophers such as Michel de Montaigne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, Helmuth Plessner, Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Nancy, Emmanuel Levinas, Peter Sloterdijk, Guillaume le Blanc, and Pierre Zaoui, Stan shows how the question of the right interpersonal distance became a fundamental one for the literary authors under consideration and explores what forms and genres they proposed in order to convey the complexity of this question.Stan demonstrates that these emblematically twentieth-century authors reimagined how people can live together and provided alternatives to established ways of thinking about community. In this way, she suggests, these literary authors are engaged, albeit unknowingly, in fleshing out what Roland Barthes called ?a science, or perhaps an art, of distances.? 606 $aSocial distance$xPhilosophy 606 $aEthics in literature 606 $aEuropean literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aSocial distance$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aEthics in literature. 615 0$aEuropean literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a809.93353 700 $aStan$b Corina$0927321 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910487551303321 996 $aThe art of distances$92083543 997 $aUNINA