Tracing Global Democracy: Literature, Theory, and the Politics of Trauma

404 Pages·2016·2.093 MB·English

by  Vladimir Biti

VladimirBiti
TracingGlobalDemocracy
Culture & Conflict
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Volume 7
Vladimir Biti
Tracing Global
Democracy
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Literature, Theory, and the Politicsof Trauma
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Acknowledgments
WhileworkingonthisbookIhavepublishedportionsofitindifferentforms.To
adapt themtothefinal shape ofargument, Ihave revised allofthemwithone
exception.
Chapter1isamodifiedversionoftheessay“TheDividedLegacyoftheRepublic
ofLetters:Emancipation andTrauma,”JournalofLiteratureandTraumaStudies
(UniversityofNebraskaPress)2:1(2012),1–30.
Chapter2isamodifiedversionoftheessay“TheFissuredIdentityofLiterature.
The Birth of National Literary History out of International Cultural Transfers,”
JournalofLiteraryTheory(DeGruyter)1–2:7(2013),1–30.
Chapter3isanextendedandrevisedversionoftheessay“TwoConceptsofLiter-
aryBildung:Educationand/orSelf-Formation?”inVladimirBiti,ed.,Reexamining
theNationalPhilologicalLegacy:QuestforaNewParadigm?AmsterdamandNew
York:Rodopi,2013,23–42.
Chapter 4 draws on portions from “The Divided Legacy of the Enlightenment:
Herder’sCosmopolitanismasSuppressedEurocentrism,”inMarcMaufort&Caro-
linedeWagter,eds.,OldMarginsandNewCenters:TheEuropeanLiteraryHeritage
intheAgeofGlobalization,Bruxellesetal.:PeterLang,2011,73–83.
Chapter5isanoriginalcontribution.
TheargumenttakeninPartTwoissketchedintheGerman-languageessay“The-
orie und Weltbürgerlichkeit,” in Mario Grizelj and Oliver Jahraus, eds., Theori-
etheorie: Gegen die neuerliche Theoriemüdigkeit in den Geistes- und Kulturwis-
senschaften,PaderbornandMunich:WilhelmFink,2011,291–303.
Chapter6isanextendedandrevisedversionoftheessay“TheAdulterousThe-
ory,”Neohelicon(Springer)1:40(2013),11–21.Thisessaywaspublishedinslightly
modifiedversion,inGerman,underthetitle“DieverinnerlichteAußerhalbbefind-
lichkeit:ÜberdieweltbürgerlicheLegitimierungdertheoretischenWahrheit,”in
MarioGrizelj,OliverJahrausandTanjaProkić,eds.,VorderTheorie:Immersion–
Materialität–Intensität,Würzburg:Könighausen&Neumann,2014,163–183.
Chapter 7 is an extended and revised English version of the German-language
essay“AnschlussfähigkeitundpostkolonialeWelt:ZumStellenwertdesRomans
in Luhmanns Systemtheorie,” in Grizelj, Mario and Daniela Kirschstein, eds.,
Riskante Kontakte: PostkolonialeTheorien und Systemtheorie? Berlin: Kadmos,
2014,251–278.
VI | Acknowledgments
Chapter8isanoriginalcontribution.
Chapter9substantiallyextendsandreworksportionstakenfromtheessay“The
Self,theNovelandHistory:OntheLimitsofBakhtin’sHistoricalPoetics,”Orbis
Litterarum(Blackwell&Viley)4:66(2011),255–279.
Chapter10substantiallyextendsandreworksportionstakenfromtheessay“Dis-
tanceandProximity,”Neohelicon(Springer)2:37(2010),469–475.
Chapter11substantiallyextendsand reworksportions takenfromthreeessays:
“From Literature to Culture– and Back?,” Primerjalna književnost 1: 31 (2008),
15–25,“NarrativeIdentification,”Arcadia(DeGruyter)1:43(2008)and“Toward
aLiteraryCommunity?”inTheoD’haenundIannisGoerlandt,eds.,Literaturefor
Europe,Amsterdam,NewYorketal.:Rodopi,2009,27–42.
Chapter 12draws on theshort draft of“Literatureas Deterritorialization: Gilles
DeleuzeandJacquesRancière,”inSonjaStojmenska-ElzeserandVladimirMar-
tinovski, eds.,LiteraryDislocations,Skopje: InstituteofMacedonian Literature,
2013,19–27.Itwaspublishedinthegivenformunderthetitle“DisaggregatingTer-
ritories:Literature,Emancipation,andResistance,”inUmjetnostriječi/TheArtof
Words:JournalforLiterature,TheatreandFilmStudies3–4:58(2014).
Theepiloguewaswrittenespeciallyforthisbook.
Ioffermythankstothepublishersfortheirpermissiontouserevisedversionsof
theseessayshere.
Contents
Acknowledgments|V
Introduction
TheCosmopolitanAxis:Agenciesand/orEnablers|1
PartI:TowardaGlobalCommunity:
TheEmergenceoftheModernIdeaofLiterature
1 TheDividedLegacyoftheRepublicofLetters:Emancipationand
Trauma|33
2 TheFissuredIdentityofLiterature:NationalUniversalismand/or
CosmopolitanNationalism|57
2.1 Intertwinedopposites|57
2.2 Theemergenceofthenationalliteraryhistoriography|60
2.3 Cosmopolitanpatriotanddemocratictyrant:
Jean-JacquesRousseau|68
2.4 Whoisauthorizedtorepresent“naturalcommunities”?|74
2.5 Identificationbyalienation|79
3 TheJanusFaceofLiteraryBildung:Educationand/or
Self-Formation?|83
3.1 “Havingtheother”and“beingtheother”|83
3.2 DifferencesbetweentheBildungconcepts|84
3.3 Mirroringandinterweaving|89
3.4 Resolvingambiguity,institutingdifference|94
4 WhoVoicesUniversalHistory?Kant’s“Mankind”and/orHerder’s
“Nature”|99
4.1 Introduction|99
4.2 Kant’sadvocacyofmankind|105
4.3 Herder’sadvocacyofnature|118
5 WhoWorldstheLiterature?Goethe’sWeltliteraturand
Globalization|133
5.1 Comparativeliteratureasthepromoterofglobalization|133
5.2 Goethe’sdetachmentfromglobalization|137
VIII | Contents
5.3 Gettingoutofthecrowd:Goethe’selitistcosmopolitanism|139
5.4 Theactingoutofthetraumaticexperience|141
5.5 AretroactivereinvestmentofGoethe’scosmopolitanism|146
5.6 Goethe’straumanarrative:RepositioningGermanliterature|148
5.7 Fromexemptiontoexpansion:TowardtheRomanimperial
cosmopolitanism|153
5.8 Translatingthe“ironlawofkinship”intothe“freecompetitionof
values”:TheU.S.-Americantraumanarrative|157
PartII:AnObserverunderObservation:
TheCosmopolitanLegacyofModernTheory
6 InteriorizingtheExteriority:TheCosmopolitanAuthorizationofthe
TheoreticalTruth|179
7 TheNarrativeofPermanentDisplacement:EarlyGermanRomanticism
andItsTheoreticalAfterlife|195
7.1 ReappropriatingtheearlyRomanticistlegacy|195
7.2 Thepatternofirritatedovercoming:theentangled
opponents|198
7.3 Literatureagainstphilosophy:NiklasLuhmann’sautopoietic
turn|202
7.4 Passionatelycommitedtothememoryofthewhole|203
7.5 TheEuropeanentangledlegacy|206
7.6 Thenovelastheepitomeofevolutionarynecessity|209
8 TheOppositionalLiteraryTranscendental:TheRussianFormalist
RewritingofEarlyRomanticistCosmopolitanism|213
8.1 Thepost-imperialhyphenationandearlyRomanticistlegacy|213
8.2 Literature’spersistentself-exemption–modernliterarytheory’s
cosmopolitanoperation|220
8.3 Theresurgenceofthedisempoweredlaw|224
8.4 Unleashingtheforceofself-exemption|227
9 TheAll-DevouringModernMind:Bakhtin’sCosmopolitanSelf|235
9.1 Confrontingmindwithself-displacinglife|235
9.2 Autopiancosmopolitancommunity|239
9.3 Theauthorialoperation:expandingtheselfbyconsummatingthe
others|242
Contents | IX
9.4 Acounterfactualcompensatoryproject|245
9.5 Thedivineandthedevaluedother–aconstitutive
interdependency|250
10 CounteringtheEmpiricalEvidence:FromImmigrantCosmopolitanism
toaCosmopolitanismoftheDisregarded|257
10.1 Abstractingfromnaturaltranscendentals|257
10.2 Dis/empoweringthecosmopolitanpolice|264
10.3 Attheempoweringserviceofapowerlessvictim:Emmanuel
Levinas|266
10.4 Thedisablingenablementofthetheorist:MauriceBlanchotand
MichelFoucault|272
10.5 Empoweringtheliterarytranscendental:JacquesDerrida|281
11 Politicaland/orLiteraryCommunity:FromClasstoMessianic
Cosmopolitanism|285
11.1 Singularity –aEuropeanmission?|285
11.2 TheclasscosmopolitanismofCulturalStudies|291
11.3 Cruellyattachedtounfathomablesingularity|299
11.4 Thecounter-narrativeofsingularity|306
11.5 Vanishingmediation|315
12 LiteratureasDeterritorialization:NewVistasforDemocracy?|319
12.1 GillesDeleuze:emancipationthroughdehumanization|319
12.2 JacquesRancière:emancipationthroughderegulation|329
12.3 Reintroducingtheagentofuniversality:politicsturnedinto
police|340
Epilogue
ThePracticeofRecommencing:TowardaCosmopolitanismofthe
DispossessedBelonging|345
References|357
Index|385