The Common Growl
Thomas Claviez (ed.)
The Common Growl
(New York: Fordham UP, 2016)
No longer able to read community in terms colored by a romantic nostalgia for homogeneity, closeness and sameness, or the myth of rational choice, we nevertheless face an imperative to think the common. The prominent scholars assembled here come together to articulate community while thinking seriously about the tropes, myths, narratives, metaphors, conceits, and shared cultural texts on which any such articulation depends. The result is a major contribution to literary theory, postcolonialism, philosophy, political theory, and sociology.
Contributors: Jean-Luc Nancy, Thomas Claviez, Robert J. C. Young, Homi K. Bhabha, Djelal Kadir, Jacques Rancière, Paul Gilroy, Nancy Fraser, Dietmar Wetzel.
CONTENTS
Jean-Luc Nancy
“Forward: The Common Growl”
Thomas Claviez
“Introduction: Toward a Poetics of Community”
THE POETICS OF COMMUNITY
Robert J. C. Young
“Community and Ethnos“
Thomas Claviez
“A Metonymic Community? Toward a Poetics of Contingency”
Homi K. Bhabha
“Poetics of Anxiety and Security: The Problem of Speech and Action in Our Time”
Djelal Kadir
“Literature, the World, and You”
THE POLITICS OF AESTHETICS
Jacques Ranciere
“Literary Communities”
Paul Gilroy
“Antiracism and (re)Humanization”
SOCIOLOGICAL REFLECTIONS
Nancy Fraser
“Can Society Be Commodities All the Way Down? Post-Polanyian Reflections on Capitalist Crisis”
Dietmar Wetzel
“Two Examples of Recent Aesthetico-Political Forms of Community: Occupy and Sharing Economy”
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
WORKS CITED
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX OF NAMES
SUBJECT INDEX