Time, Doubt and Wonder in the Humanities: Between the Tick and the Tock
Autor Prasanta Chakravartyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 dec 2018
The book offers a benchmark in thinking about why we must take literature and art seriously in times of great political turmoil. It affirms that the shape and contour of literary studies shall depend on how the coming generation maintains a delicate balance among inspiration, doubt and faith.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789388134255
ISBN-10: 9388134257
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 144 x 224 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic India
Locul publicării:New Delhi, India
ISBN-10: 9388134257
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 144 x 224 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic India
Locul publicării:New Delhi, India
Cuprins
Opening Words: Time, Doubt and Wonder
1. If This Be Saddle-Time
2. Precarity Against Heroic Virility
3. Literature and Silence
4. Rain and Revulsion
5. Linger Like Moisture Within
6. Consecration in Art
7. Minstrelsy
8. My Rifle, My Bible
9. Expenditure, Insolvency and Recovery in Poetry
10. Adam, Eve and the Discrete Art of Whiggery
11. The Other Martin Luther
12. The Torah as Literature
13. All Flesh is Grass
14. The Act of Translation: Slow Rendering of an Ache
15. Creatures in Shards: Elem Klimov's Come and See
16. Kojin Karatani's Exchange Recurrences and Isonomic Associationism
17. The Lattice of Paranoia: University of Delhi, Circa 2017-2018
18. Between the Tick and the Tock
Index
1. If This Be Saddle-Time
2. Precarity Against Heroic Virility
3. Literature and Silence
4. Rain and Revulsion
5. Linger Like Moisture Within
6. Consecration in Art
7. Minstrelsy
8. My Rifle, My Bible
9. Expenditure, Insolvency and Recovery in Poetry
10. Adam, Eve and the Discrete Art of Whiggery
11. The Other Martin Luther
12. The Torah as Literature
13. All Flesh is Grass
14. The Act of Translation: Slow Rendering of an Ache
15. Creatures in Shards: Elem Klimov's Come and See
16. Kojin Karatani's Exchange Recurrences and Isonomic Associationism
17. The Lattice of Paranoia: University of Delhi, Circa 2017-2018
18. Between the Tick and the Tock
Index
Recenzii
Dazzling, erudite, simultaneously charming and assaulting, this analysis of affects, disturbing and strange affects, and especially wonder, the most elusive of affects and the most energising of moods, shines a new light on the forces of time and becoming. At once a deeply political analysis of the present and a meditation of its impossibility, these extraordinary essays open out our understanding of what the humanities, and especially the arts, can do in times of crisis.
Anyone demoralised about the situation of humanities in an anti-intellectual and greed-driven era will be heartened by this path-breaking and searching study. Prasanta Chakravarty has gathered here essays on topics that range from the importance of Luther to the Torah as literature to 18th-century minstrelsy. His meditations on such historical topics are interwoven with readings of important Bengali and Hindi poets of several generations, new insights into the poems of Basil Bunting and David Jones, and thoughts on the quality of academic life within the University of Delhi, where he teaches. Underlying all of his work is a concern with the common human experiences of time and the senses, and the ways our belief systems, so often mutually unintelligible, which nevertheless speak to a shared desire to live beyond the merely literal.
Prasanta Chakravarty's book is a furious, irresistible ride between philosophy, literature and politics. It displays an amazing erudition and mobilises dozens of ideas and authors, from classics to contemporary critical thought, passing through German, English and Hindi poetry. Advancing through this labyrinth of concepts and images with elegance and astuteness, Chakravarty explores the enigma of time. Between Chronos and Kairos, his praxical imagination fruitfully discloses new horizons of hope.
Anyone demoralised about the situation of humanities in an anti-intellectual and greed-driven era will be heartened by this path-breaking and searching study. Prasanta Chakravarty has gathered here essays on topics that range from the importance of Luther to the Torah as literature to 18th-century minstrelsy. His meditations on such historical topics are interwoven with readings of important Bengali and Hindi poets of several generations, new insights into the poems of Basil Bunting and David Jones, and thoughts on the quality of academic life within the University of Delhi, where he teaches. Underlying all of his work is a concern with the common human experiences of time and the senses, and the ways our belief systems, so often mutually unintelligible, which nevertheless speak to a shared desire to live beyond the merely literal.
Prasanta Chakravarty's book is a furious, irresistible ride between philosophy, literature and politics. It displays an amazing erudition and mobilises dozens of ideas and authors, from classics to contemporary critical thought, passing through German, English and Hindi poetry. Advancing through this labyrinth of concepts and images with elegance and astuteness, Chakravarty explores the enigma of time. Between Chronos and Kairos, his praxical imagination fruitfully discloses new horizons of hope.