Research Catalog
Reading for the Planet Toward a Geomethodology
- Title
- Reading for the Planet [electronic resource] : Toward a Geomethodology / Christian Moraru.
- Author
- Moraru, Christian.
- Publication
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
- Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2015]
Details
- Additional Authors
- Project Muse.
- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 248 pages))
- Summary
- In his new book, Christian Moraru argues that post-Cold War culture in general and, in particular, the literature, philosophy, and theory produced since 9/11 foreground an emergent "planetary" imaginary--a "planetarism"--binding in unprecedented ways the world's peoples, traditions, and aesthetic practices. This imaginary, Moraru further contends, speaks to a world condition ("planetarity") increasingly exhibited by human expression worldwide. Grappling with the symptoms of planetarity in the arts and the human sciences, the author insists, is a major challenge for today's scholars--a challenge Reading for the Planet means to address. Thus, Moraru takes decisive steps toward a critical methodology--a "geomethodology"--for dealing with planetarism's aesthetic and philosophical projections. Here, Moraru analyzes novels by Joseph O'Neill, Mircea Cartarescu, Sorj Chalandon, Zadie Smith, Orhan Pamuk, and Dai Sijie, among others, as demonstration of his paradigm.
- Uniform Title
- Reading for the Planet (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Reading for the Planet (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Source of Description (note)
- Description based on print version record.
- Contents
- Prologue : a well-tempered manifesto -- part 1. World, globe, planet -- part 2. Geomethodology : theory and practice -- Epilogue. Criticism as planetary stewardship.
- OCLC
- ssj0001599884
- Author
- Moraru, Christian.
- Title
- Reading for the Planet [electronic resource] : Toward a Geomethodology / Christian Moraru.
- Imprint
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)Ann Arbor [Michigan] : University of Michigan Press, [2015] (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-223) and index.
- Access
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Project Muse.
- Other Form:
- Print version: 047207279X 9780472072798