Disappointment : its modern roots from Spinoza to contemporary literature /: its modern roots from Spinoza to contemporary literature. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael Mack.
• Authors: Mack, Michael, 1969-2020
• Contents: Introduction1. Spinoza and F. H. Jacobi's idealist disavowal of disappointment or how Romanticism questions Idealisations of the Anthropocene 2. Rendering Dialectics Disappointing: Spinoza's spectre haunting the Anthropocene from Romanticism to Postmodernism in literature and science 3. The Destructive element: Keats & Conrad or How Romanticism avows idealism's disavowed disappointment 4. Modernity's promise and its disavowed disappointment: Hannah Arendt's Analysis of Totalitarianism out of the Sources of Conrad's Heart of Darkness 5. The trajectory of Conrad's novel of Disavowed Disappointment: Hegel's dialectics, Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby and Saul Bellow's Ravelstein 6. Political Promises and History's Disappointments: Leo Strauss as the esoteric centre of Bellow's Ravelstein and the critique of grand political promises 7. Disappointment in the age of the Anthropocene: how D H Lawrence and Kafka render dialectics inoperative 8. Disappointing expectations of Redemption: Modern Jewish Writing and Thought 9. Conclusion: Expecting Disappointment, or, from Pynchon's Roth's, Strauss's and Vonnegut's postmodernism to Anna Burn's Milkman and D. F. Wallace The Pale KingBibliographyAcknowledgmentsIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.93353; Literature, Modern -- History and criticism; Disappointment in literature; Self in literature; Literature -- Philosophy; Politics and literature; Disappointment; Postmodernism
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781501366888
• Related ISBNs: 9781501366895
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