The Power of the Impossible: On Community and the Creatitve Life surveys cultural figures from Spinoza to popular culture icon Ivan Lendl, to illuminate the challenge and problem of establishing a future-oriented world community and its conceptual intersection with heterogeneous forms of the creative life.

'A spirited, luminous romp through theory, literature--and professional tennis! This original, unorthodox study illuminates our current crises of community formation and creativity in ways unexpected but necessary.' Robert Appelbaum, Uppsala University

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Erik S. Roraback teaches critical theory, international cinema, theoretical psychoanalysis and U.S. literature in Charles University (est. 1348) and in F.A.M.U. (Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts) in Prague. He is the author of The Philosophical Baroque: On Autopoietic Modernities (Brill, 2017), The Dialectics of Late Capital and Power: James, Balzac and Critical Theory (Cambridge Scholars, 2007) and of 100 scholarly articles, book chapters, conference papers and guest lectures in 15 countries. He holds degrees from the University of Oxford (D.Phil.) and from Pomona College (B.A.) and has been Visiting Professor in the Universit� de Provence. He has also been a Visiting Researcher at the Universit�t Konstanz, a Visiting Scholar at the University of Washington and holds a Five-Year University Visiting Research Fellowship in the University of Winchester.

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