Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint

by William V. Spanos

Book Overview

Exiles in the City: Hannah Arendt and Edward W. Said in Counterpoint, by William V. Spanos, explores the affiliative relationship between Arendt's and Said's thought, not simply their mutual emphasis on the importance of the exilic consciousness in an age characterized by the decline of the nation-state and the rise of globalization, but also on the oppositional politics that a displaced consciousness enables. The pairing of these two extraordinary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814256872
• ISBN13: 9780814256879
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"