Bibliograph

Time in exile, in conversation with Heidegger, Blanchot, and Lispector, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

Type

Label

Time in exile, in conversation with Heidegger, Blanchot, and Lispector, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Time in exile

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1107841188

Responsibility statement

Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback

Series statement

Suny series, intersections: philosophy and critical theory

Sub title

in conversation with Heidegger, Blanchot, and Lispector

Summary

"This book is a philosophical reflection on the experience of time from within exile. Its focus on temporality is unique, as most literature on exile focuses on the experience of space, as exile involves dislocation, and moods of nostalgia and utopia. Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback proposes that in exile, time is experienced neither as longing back to the lost past nor as wanting a future to come but rather as a present without anchors or supports. She articulates this present as a "gerundive" mode, in which the one who is in exile discovers herself simply being, exposed to the uncanny experience of having lost the past and not having a future. To investigate this, the book establishes a conversation among three authors whose work has exemplified this sense of gerundive time: the German philosopher Martin Heidegger, the French writer and essayist Maurice Blanchot, and the Brazilian writer Clarice Lispector. The book does not aim to discuss how these authors understand the relation between time and exile but enters in conversation with them in relation to this question. Attempting to think and express this difficult sense of time from within exile, the book engages with the relation between thought and language, and between philosophy and literature. Departing from concrete existential questions, it opens new philosophical and theoretical modes through which to understand what it means to be present in times of exile"--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Exile as postexistential condition -- Chapter 2. The esctasy of time in being and time -- Chapter 3. Time Absent/Time present (In discussion with Blanchot) -- Chapter 4. Time being (Reading gerundive time wth Clarice Lispector) -- Chapter 5. Without conclusion: A home in Gerundive -- Notes -- Works cited -- Index

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