I’m pleased to announce that Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History has now been published (Lexington Books, 2019). This edited anthology explores how crises in democracy during different historical periods affected the way that we interpret texts. Chapters include:
Introduction
— by James Rovira
1. Democracy as Context for Theory: Plato and Derrida as Readers of Socrates
— by James Rovira
2. Historian, Forgive Us: Study of the Past as Hegel’s Methodology of Faith
— by Aglaia Maretta Venters
3. Karl Marx: The End of the Enlightenment
— by Eric Hood
4. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Toward a Dialectical Pragmatism
— by Steve Wexler
5. Robert Penn Warren: Poetry, Racism, and the Burden of History
— by Cassandra Falke
6. Louise Rosenblatt: The Reader, Democracy, and the Ethics of Reading
— by Meredith N. Sinclair
7. Aesthetic Theory: From Adorno to Cultural History
— by Philip Goldstein
8. Judith Butler: A Livable Life
— by Darcie Rives-East
9. Networking the Great Outdoors: Object-Oriented Ontology and the Digital Humanities
— by Roger Whitson
Cover photo by Rebekah Rovira.
Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History
James Rovira’s Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History (Lexington Books, 2019) examines major literary theorists and philosophers from Plato to the twenty-first century against their historical backgrounds to demonstrate how historical forces influence the interpretation of texts. The books is in a library binding with archival paper.
$130.00
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