Beschreibung
The study deals with human community and its relation with the individual. It takes recourse to the notions of friendship, moral respect and solidarity which allow for the extension of the notion of community above the limitations of the human sphere and takes up Thoreau’s work as early and prophetic diagnosis of the modern crisis of relationships.
Autorenportrait
Tadeusz S?awek is Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Silesia in Katowice (Poland). His numerous works on history and theory of literature include discussions of William Blake, Robinson Jeffers, Georg Trakl, William Shakespeare, and Jacques Derrida.
Jean Ward is an Associate Professor of the University of Gda?sk (Poland).
Rezension
«A book like this deserves to be lauded in many voices [...].»
(Mark S. Burrows, Polish Journal for American Studies 10/2016)
Inhalt
Contents: Community – The human – Non-human – Friendship – America – Wilderness – Habitation – Perception – Henry David Thoreau – Roland Barthes – Erich Auerbach.
