Literature, Autonomy and Commitment [Hardcover] Rooden, Aukje van

Rooden, Aukje van

ISBN 10: 1501344730 / ISBN 13: 9781501344732

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Literature, Autonomy and Commitment [Hardcover] Rooden, Aukje van
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1501344730
• ISBN 13: 9781501344732
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 12 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Studies

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Synopsis

It is often argued that a new form of committed literature is needed. Embracing the 18th-century Romantic idea of aesthetic autonomy, literature is believed to have turned its back to everyday social and political reality. One of the central questions occupying contemporary literary debates is therefore whether literary autonomy is essential to modern literature (‘autonomism’) or should be abandoned (‘anti-autonomism’). Aukje van Rooden argues that the debate between autonomists and anti-autonomists cannot be anything but a fruitless tug-of-war, because it is based on a distorted historical picture. In order to make sense of the social relevance of contemporary literature, a new theoretical paradigm has to be formulated. Literature, Autonomy and Commitment not only offers an historical-conceptual reconstruction of the Romantic paradigm and the theoretical impasse it has created, but also sketches the outline of a new paradigm, called ‘the relational paradigm’, based on the relational ontologies developed in 20th- and 21st-century philosophy.

About the Author

Aukje van Rooden is Assistant Professor in the Philosophy of Art and Culture at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.