{"product_id":"9781501307997","title":"Pathos of Distance Affects of the Moderns","description":"\u003ch1\u003ePathos of Distance\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eAffects of the Moderns\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJean-Michel Rabaté\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eJean-Michel Rabaté uses Nietzsche's image of a “pathos of distance,” the notion that values are created by a few gifted and lofty individuals, as the basis for a wide-ranging investigation into the ethics of the moderns. Revealing overlooked connections between Nietzsche's and Benjamin's ideas of history and ethics, Rabaté provides an original genealogy for modernist thought, moving through figures and moments as varied as Yeats and the birth of Irish Modernism, the ethics of courage in Virginia Woolf, Rilke, Apollinaire, and others in 1910, T. S. Eliot's post-war despair, Jean Cocteau's formidable selfmythology in his first film \u003ci\u003eThe Blood of a Poet\u003c\/i\u003e, Siri Hustvedt's novel of American trauma, and J. M. Coetzee's dystopia portraying an affectless future haunted by a messianic promise.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJean-Michel Rabaté \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including \u003ci\u003eCrimes of the Future \u003c\/i\u003e(2014), \u003ci\u003eThe Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis \u003c\/i\u003e(2014), the edited volume \u003ci\u003e1922: Literature, Culture, Politics\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThink, Pig! Beckett at the Limit of the Human \u003c\/i\u003e(2016).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e21 April 2016\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781501307997\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e232\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9.6\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51332387831948,"sku":"9781501307997","price":35.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_b2e2236f-f209-4668-a7b0-b20665f74ee5.jpg?v=1783603121","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781501307997","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}