Scars of the Spirit The Struggle Against Inauthenticity

by Hartman, Geoffrey

• ISBN13: 9781403965585
• ISBN10: 1403965587
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-04
• Publisher: Griffin

Summary

Where, asks this fascinating collection of essays on today's world, can we find what is real and authentic? And why should this matter to us? Noted critic Geoffrey Hartman contemplates the illusion of the real in autobiography, personal testimony, literature, the internet, and tele- vision talk shows, and meditates on why we need a sense of the aesthetic to cope in our contemporary world.

Author Biography

Geoffrey Hartman is the Sterling Professor of English and Comparative Literature (Emeritus) and Co-Founder and Project Director of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies at Yale University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
Foreword	p. vii
Triple Overture
Dangerous Good Words	p. 3
A Short History of the Unreal	p. 25
Remnants of Hegel	p. 41
Realism, Authenticity, and the New Biographical Culture	p. 55
Tele-Suffering and Testimony	p. 67
Testimony and Authenticity	p. 85
The Letter as Revenant	p. 103
Text and Spirit	p. 119
Transparency Reconsidered	p. 137
Who Needs Goethe?	p. 161
The Virtue of Attentiveness	p. 177
Democracy's Museum	p. 191
Aestheticide	p. 211
Epilogue	p. 231
Notes	p. 237
Index	p. 255
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