{"product_id":"expectation-9780823277605","title":"Expectation","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eExpectation is a major volume of Jean-Luc Nancy's writings on literature, written across three decades but, for the most part, previously unavailable in English.\u003cbr\u003eMore substantial than literary criticism, these essays collectively negotiate literature's relation to philosophy. Nancy pursues such questions as literature's claims to truth, the status of narrative, the relation of poetry and prose, and the unity of a book or of a text, and he addresses a number of major European writers, including Dante, Sterne, Rousseau, Hölderlin, Proust, Joyce, and Blanchot.\u003cbr\u003eThe final section offers a number of impressive pieces by Nancy that completely merge his concerns for philosophy and literature and philosophy-as-literature. These include a lengthy parody of Valéry's La Jeune Parque, several original poems by Nancy, and a beautiful prose-poetic discourse on an installation by Italian artist Claudio Parmiggiani that incorporates the Faust theme. \u003cbr\u003eOpening with a substantial Introdu\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Expectation stages a courtship between philosophy and literature that has never been presented with such wit, grace, and finesse. What's more, this intense courtship leads to a marriage blessed with specific offspring: Nancy's book offers both an epithalamium and a pregnant poetics, a poetics of awakening and emergence-poetics as obstetrics ushering in new 'senses' in and of the world, plus strong and luminescent poems never seen in English before.\" -- from Jean-Michel Rabate's Introduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction     Cornerstones     \t1: Cone     \t2: Baldwin      \t3: Mbembe      \t4: Derrida, Agamben, Wynter      Questions     \t5: What is Black Tradition?      \t6: What is Black Organizing?      \t7: For What Are Blacks to Hope?      \t8: For What Are Whites to Hope?      Exempla     \t9: The Revelation of Race: On Steve Biko      \t10: The Racial Messiah: On Huey P. Newton      \t11: The Post-Racial Saint: On Barack Obama      \t12: The Race of the Soul: On Gillian Rose      Afterword: The Birth of the Black Church     Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406149099863,"sku":"9780823277605","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823277605.jpg?v=1730494697","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/expectation-9780823277605","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}