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  title info:
    title: Saramago's Philosophical Heritage
  name:
    name part: Salzani, Carlo.
    role:
      role term: editor.
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      role term: edt
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      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: Vanhoutte, Kristof K. P.
    role:
      role term: editor.
    role:
      role term: edt
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIII, 261 p. online resource.
  abstract: The past decades have seen a growing "philosophical" interest in a number of authors, but strangely enough Saramago's oeuvre has been left somewhat aside. This volume aims at filling this gap by providing a diverse range of philosophical perspectives and expositions on Saramago's work. The chapters explore some possible issues arising from his works: from his use of Plato's allegory of the cave to his re-readings of Biblical stories; from his critique and "reinvention" of philosophy of history to his allegorical exploration of alternative histories; from his humorous approach to our being-towards-death to the revolutionary political charge of his fiction. The essays here confront Saramago's fiction with concepts, theories, and suggestions belonging to various philosophical traditions and philosophers including Plato, Pascal, Kierkegaard, Freud, Benjamin, Heidegger, Lacan, Foucault, Patočka, Derrida, Agamben, and Žižek.
  table of contents: 1. Introduction: Proteus the Philosopher, Or, Reading Saramago as a Lover of Wisdom -- 2. Correcting History: Apocalypticism, Messianism and Saramago's Philosophy of History -- 3. The "Dark Side" of History: Saramago, Foucault and Synchronic History -- 4. José Saramago's "Magical" Historical Materialism -- 5. Some Remarks on a Phenomenological Interpretation of Saramago's Cave -- 6. Death by Representation: In Law, in Literature, and in That Space Between -- 7. A Contemporary Midrash: Saramago's Re-telling of the "Sacrifice of Isaac" -- 8. Female Representations in José Saramago: A Space for Oppositional Discourses from the Canonical Gospels to the Gospel According to Jesus Christ -- 9. Saramago's Axiology of Gender Difference -- 10. Saramago's Dogs: For an Inclusive Humanism -- 11. Traumatic Counterfactuals -- 12. Bye Bye Bartleby and Hello Seeing, or, On the Silence and the Actualization to Do... Not.
  note: edited by Carlo Salzani, Kristof K. P. Vanhoutte.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History-Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Latin American literature
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Man
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of History
  subject:
    topic: Latin American/Caribbean Literature
  classification: B53
  classification: 128
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      title: Springer eBooks
  identifier: 9783319919232
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91923-2
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    record creation date: 180716
    record change date: 20191027002424.0
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