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- catalog abstract ""In this collection of essays, noted critic Geoffrey Hartman raises the essential question of where we can find the real or authentic in today's world, and how this affects the way we understand our human predicament. Hartman explores such issues as the fantasy of total information and perfect communication encouraged by the internet, the biographical excesses of tell-all talk shows that serve to shore up a personal sense of unreality, the tendency to motivate violence in the name of some moral or spiritual necessity, and the increased difficulty of distinguishing between fakery and truth in confessional and testimonial writing. Underlying the entire book is the crucial issue of how the trauma of the Holocaust and other genocidal acts, brought home to us almost daily by the media, is shaping our quest for agency, identity, and meaning."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12581779.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""In this collection of essays, noted critic Geoffrey Hartman raises the essential question of where we can find the real or authentic in today's world, and how this affects the way we understand our human predicament. Hartman explores such issues as the fantasy of total information and perfect communication encouraged by the internet, the biographical excesses of tell-all talk shows that serve to shore up a personal sense of unreality, the tendency to motivate violence in the name of some moral or spiritual necessity, and the increased difficulty of distinguishing between fakery and truth in confessional and testimonial writing.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-254) and index.".
- catalog description "Triple Overture -- Dangerous Good Words -- A Short History of the Unreal -- Remnants of Hegel -- Realism, Authenticity, and the New Biographical Culture -- Tele-Suffering and Testimony -- Testimony and Authenticity -- The Letter as Revenant -- Text and Spirit -- Transparency Reconsidered -- Who Needs Goethe? -- The Virtue of Attentiveness -- Democracy's Museum -- Aestheticide.".
- catalog description "Underlying the entire book is the crucial issue of how the trauma of the Holocaust and other genocidal acts, brought home to us almost daily by the media, is shaping our quest for agency, identity, and meaning."--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "xii, 260 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0312295693".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : Palgrave/Macmillan,".
- catalog subject "128 21".
- catalog subject "Authenticity (Philosophy)".
- catalog subject "B105.A8 H37 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "Triple Overture -- Dangerous Good Words -- A Short History of the Unreal -- Remnants of Hegel -- Realism, Authenticity, and the New Biographical Culture -- Tele-Suffering and Testimony -- Testimony and Authenticity -- The Letter as Revenant -- Text and Spirit -- Transparency Reconsidered -- Who Needs Goethe? -- The Virtue of Attentiveness -- Democracy's Museum -- Aestheticide.".
- catalog title "Scars of the spirit : the struggle against inauthenticity / Geoffrey Hartman.".
- catalog type "text".