Lexington Books
Pages: 198
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Trim: 6¼ x 9
978-1-4985-5386-5 • Hardback • April 2019 • $111.00 • (£85.00)
978-1-4985-5387-2 • eBook • April 2019 • $105.50 • (£82.00)
James Rovira is owner of Bright Futures Educational Consulting and founding president of the Anazoa Educational Project. He is former associate professor and English department chair at Mississippi College.
Preface
Introduction
by James Rovira
1. Democracy as Context for Theory: Plato and Derrida as Readers of Socrates
by James Rovira
2. Historian, Forgive Us: Study of the Past as Hegel’s Methodology of Faith
by Aglaia Maretta Venters
3. Karl Marx: The End of the Enlightenment
by Eric Hood
4. Ludwig Wittgenstein: Toward a Dialectical Pragmatism
by Steve Wexler
5. Robert Penn Warren: Poetry, Racism, and the Burden of History
by Cassandra Falke
6. Louise Rosenblatt: The Reader, Democracy, and the Ethics of Reading
by Meredith N. Sinclair
7. Aesthetic Theory: From Adorno to Cultural History
by Philip Goldstein
8. Judith Butler: A Livable Life
by Darcie Rives-East
9. Networking the Great Outdoors: Object-Oriented Ontology and the Digital Humanities
by Roger Whitson
Index
About the Editor
About the Contributors
The ensuing struggle for democracy requires courageous scholars and writers to speak truth and for publishers to deliver their message to the public. Reading as Democracy in Crisis: Interpretation, Theory, History is an essential tool in democracy's fragile arsenal with which to contest denuded and unsavory forms of thought emerging in our time. Books like this one might just save us from sinking into a new dark age.
— Creston Davis, The Global Center for Advanced Studies
Rovira and his contributors remind us here of reading’s rich heritage as an inherently political act of self-definition in service to democracy. A timely and compelling multi-vocal manifesto for our troubled times, and a thought-provoking read throughout.
— Stephen C. Behrendt, University Professor and George Holmes Distinguished Professor of English, University of Nebraska