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Intimate Strangers: Arendt, Marcuse, Solzhenitsyn, and Said in American Political Discourse Hardcover – August 26, 2014
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Intimate Strangers unpacks this "stranger ethos," a blend of detachment and involvement that manifested in the persona of a prophet for Solzhenitsyn, an impartial observer for Arendt, a mentor for Marcuse, and a victim for Said. Yet despite its many successes, the stranger ethos did alienate many audiences, and critics continue to dismiss these thinkers not for their positions but because of their foreign point of view. This book encourages readers to reject this kind of critical xenophobia, throwing support behind a political discourse that accounts for the ideals of citizens and noncitizens alike.
- Print length320 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherColumbia University Press
- Publication dateAugust 26, 2014
- Dimensions6.32 x 0.76 x 9.33 inches
- ISBN-109780231168687
- ISBN-13978-0231168687
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Andreea Ritivoi provides a combination of poignant biography with insightful analysis of how the rhetorical strategy of the stranger persona reveals the tightrope that we walk when we converse in the public sphere with those who are part of a social configuration that we enter from the outside. The insight she provides into this insider/outsider relation is bolstered by the rigor and concreteness of her analysis of the public rhetoric of four prominent immigrant intellectuals during their sojourn in the U.S. just before and after the Second World War. -- Fred Evans, Duquesne University
This book is important. It is ambitious, thorough and sensitively written by one whom herself is an intimate stranger in America. It is about the discourse of foreign intellectuals and their receptions. Intimate Strangers highlights the diverse stories of four iconic figures--Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, and Edward Said--and how their "stranger personas" were ambivalently received in America. It says as much about American culture as it does about "foreign" intellectuals. This book is a "must-read" for anyone interested in the politics and challenges of cultural identity. -- Michael Krausz, author of Oneness and the Displacement of Self: Dialogues on Self-Realization
A superb endeavor to understand the thorny dialectics of uprootedness and the reinvention of intellectuals forced into exile by the ideological follies of the twentieth century. This book is not only a major achievement in intellectual history but also a vibrant invitation to empathy, lucidity, and moral clarity. -- Vladimir Tismaneanu, author of The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century
A finely argued contribution to the discussion of immigration. ― Kirkus Reviews
Unusual and illuminating... Essential reading for students of literature, philosophy, and post-World War II American intellectual history. ― Library Journal
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- ASIN : 0231168683
- Publisher : Columbia University Press (August 26, 2014)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9780231168687
- ISBN-13 : 978-0231168687
- Item Weight : 1.27 pounds
- Dimensions : 6.32 x 0.76 x 9.33 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #4,762,042 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #3,485 in U.S. Immigrant History
- #3,609 in Civics & Citizenship (Books)
- #4,765 in General Elections & Political Process
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Andreea Deciu Ritivoi is William S. Dietrich Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. Her research interests include political rhetoric, hermeneutics, narrative studies, and migration.
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