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Modernity as Exception and Miracle

by Eduardo Sabrovsky

  • Paperback
  • 220 pages
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

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Translated from the Spanish De lo extraordinario: Nominalismo y Modernidad, this book argues that a defining aspect of modernity is an ever-increasing pursuit of, and need for, what Eduardo Sabrovsky calls "the extraordinary," a term that encompasses both the exception and the miraculous. Sabrovsky shows the degree to which Robert Musil's novel The Man without Qualities functions as a paradoxical paradigm of the extraordinary, and he extends the theoretical insights drawn from Musil's magisterial work through a series of inquiries into cardinal elements of modern literature, material culture, historiography, physical science, psychoanalysis, and political theory. Sabrovsky demonstrates how the extraordinary condition of modernity emerges from the debates conducted by the last representatives of medieval scholasticism in which nominalism defeated realism, and he resituates the results of this triumph of nominalism in the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, and Georges Bataille, among others.
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  • Title

    Modernity as Exception and Miracle

  • Author

    Eduardo Sabrovsky

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    State University of New York Press

  • Published

    January 2021

  • Weight

    327g

  • Page Count

    220

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9781438479163

  • ISBN-10

    1438479166

  • Eden Code

    5522035

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