Unrestrained Individuation: The Young Franco Moretti
| Autor: | Stefano Ercolino |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Psychoanalysis Sociology and Political Science media_common.quotation_subject Art Franco Moretti Italian Marxism Italian extra-parliamentary left history of literary criticism Theodor W. Adorno Italian Marxism Settore L-FIL-LET/14 - Critica Letteraria e Letterature Comparate Theodor W. Adorno Political Science and International Relations history of literary criticism Italian extra-parliamentary left General Economics Econometrics and Finance Individuation Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Franco Moretti media_common |
| Popis: | This essay focuses on a little-understood phase of Franco Moretti’s work that spans 1976 to 1986. My aim is to shed light on Moretti’s cultural background as it was formed in that period and to account for the transition from the Trotskyist, politically-militant stance of his first book, Literature and Ideologies in England in the 1930s, to the idiosyncratic, seemingly disengaged character of Signs Taken for Wonders and The Way of the World. Adorno’s concept of ‘unrestrained individuation’ plays a crucial role in the argument. Following a personal political crisis, Moretti opted to enact a form of critical individuation, encoding the explicit social antagonism of the earlier years within a highly personal style and a new theoretical eclecticism. In this way, by disguising it as an alluring form of individualism, Moretti managed to smuggle an antagonistic critical discourse into an increasingly neoliberal world that would soon prove hostile toward it. |
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