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and interrogates the functions of utopian thinking in a post-Communist age

politics and science

Ernst Bloch and Hannah Arendt

He also cast fresh light on a number of basic contemporary issues—including the present financial and monetary crisis—and surveys the most important recent controversies in language accessible to non-specialists

a sensibility which is 'well off and miserable at the same time'

Debating World Literature keyword-nelson-mandela and interrogates the functions ofIn the continuing debates about the cultural dimensions of globalization, the question of literature has been something of a poor relation. This volume seeks to redress the balance. It takes as its starting point Goethes idea of Weltliteratur, from which it then travels out to various parts of the globe at different historical junctures. Among its many concerns are the legacies of Goethes idea, variable understandings of the term literature itself,