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In his latest book, the prolifically inventive scholar Jean-Michel Rabate offers a lyrical meditation on Nietzsche's famous concept of the 'pathos of distance,' drawing out the implications of this pathos for modernist aesthetics. Instead of a conventional go-ahead academic argument, Rabate presents a 'chronotopic mosaic,' ranging across several languages and cultural traditions. In this panoramic vista, unexpected affinities emerge between such figures as Benjamin and Duchamp, Eliot and Lukacs, Kierkegaard and Siri Hustvedt. Breathtaking in range and erudition, and crafted with elegance and wit, The Pathos of Distance enriches our understanding of modernism while pioneering a new mode of thinking and writing about art and literature. Maud Ellmann, Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, University of Chicago, USA Jean-Michel Rabate's exceptional grasp of the broadest landscapes of modern literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis and culture is brought to bear in this volume on a range of writings and visual representations from the late nineteenth century to the present, from Yeats and Eliot to Coetzee and Hustvedt. In these brilliant readings and explorations of terms for thought - aura, allegory, affect - we find texts, images and concepts opened up in entirely new ways. Laura Marcus, Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature, New College, University of Oxford, UK

In his latest book, the prolifically inventive scholar Jean-Michel Rabate offers a lyrical meditation on Nietzsche's famous concept of the pathos of distance, drawing out the implications of this pathos for modernist aesthetics. Instead of a conventional go-ahead academic argument, Rabate presents a 'chronotopic mosaic,' ranging across several languages and cultural traditions. In this panoramic vista, unexpected affinities emerge between such figures as Benjamin and Duchamp, Eliot and Lukacs, Kierkegaard and Siri Hustvedt. Breathtaking in range and erudition, and crafted with elegance and wit, The Pathos of Distance enriches our understanding of modernism while pioneering a new mode of thinking and writing about art and literature. Maud Ellmann, Randy L. and Melvin R. Berlin Professor of the Development of the Novel in English, University of Chicago, USA

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Jean-Michel Rabaté is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania, USA. He is the author or editor of more than thirty books, including Crimes of the Future (2014), The Cambridge Introduction to Literature and Psychoanalysis (2014), the edited volume 1922: Literature, Culture, Politics, and Think, Pig! Beckett at the Limit of the Human (2016).

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