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Modernism and Exile

Liminality and the Utopian Imagination

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  • © 2015

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Part of the book series: Modernism and... (MAND)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Exile, Utopia, and Modernity: A Cultural-Theoretical Approach

  2. Historical Excursus: Modernity and the Exilic-Utopian Imagination in the Ancient World

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About this book

Studying exile and utopia as correlated cultural phenomena, and offering a wealth of historical examples with emphasis on the modern period, Spariosu argues that modernism itself can be seen as a product of an acute exilic consciousness that often seeks to generate utopian social schemes to compensate for its exacerbated sense of existential loss.

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" quite brilliant both in content and in style, which is crisp, confident, and perspicuous. It says a whole lot about modernism and says it in an interesting way." - Hayden White, Professor of History and Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA, and author of Metahistory

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Georgia, Athens, USA

    Mihai I. Spariosu

About the author

Mihai I. Spariosu is Distinguished Research Professor at the University of Georgia, Athens, in the USA. He holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University, USA, and has taught at several prominent universities around the world. He is the founder of a new field of study and practice, Intercultural Knowledge Management, which he proposed and developed in two books: Global Intelligence and Human Development (2005) and Remapping Knowledge (2006).

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